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100-471: Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms . It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters , be organized by hashtags , and be associated with a location via geographical tagging . Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to

200-463: A TED talk about the social media platform's spread of abuse and misinformation, which has brought him criticism. On August 30, 2019, Dorsey's personal Twitter account was allegedly breached for nearly an hour by a group calling itself the Chuckling Squad, posting and retweeting numerous racist tweets. On October 23, 2019, Twitter's stock price fell by nearly 21 percent, to $ 30.75. The reason

300-475: A folksonomy . Depending on the restrictions on the set of users allowed to tag a single document and the set of tags available to describe the document, one speaks about narrow and broad folksonomies. A folksonomy is broad when there is no restriction on the set of taggers and available tags. When there are limitations, the folksonomy is called narrow. Another mechanism is coupling taxonomy and folksonomy, where tags associated to galleries and artists are cascaded to

400-537: A pivot to video , introducing a new feature called "Reels". The intent was to compete with the video-sharing site TikTok . Instagram also added suggested posts in August 2020. After scrolling through posts from the past 48 hours, Instagram displays posts related to their interests from accounts they do not follow. In February 2021, Instagram began testing a new feature called Vertical Stories, said by some sources to be inspired by TikTok. The same month, they also began testing

500-505: A portmanteau of instant camera and telegram . Josh Riedel joined the company in October as Community Manager, Shayne Sweeney joined in November as an engineer, and Jessica Zollman joined as a Community Evangelist in August 2011. The first Instagram post was a photo of South Beach Harbor at Pier 38, posted by Mike Krieger at 5:26   p.m. on July   16, 2010. On October   6, 2010,

600-512: A "lightweight" version of the Explore tab. On May 11, 2016, Instagram revamped its design, adding a black-and-white flat design theme for the app's user interface , and a less skeuomorphistic , more abstract , "modern" and colorful icon. Rumors of a redesign first started circulating in April, when The Verge received a screenshot from a tipster, but at the time, an Instagram spokesperson simply told

700-521: A central server can create problems as some users do not leave their computers online and connected all the time. Using an always-on server like Windows Home Server which acts as an intermediate point, it is possible to share images peer-to-peer with the reliability and security of a central server. Images are securely stored behind a firewall on the Windows Home Server and can be accessed only by those with appropriate permissions. A variation on

800-414: A central service, and no waiting for files to upload to the central service. Furthermore, universal web browser access to shared files makes them more widely accessible and available for use in different ways, such as embedding in, or linking to, from within web pages. As with peer-to-peer, the downsides are lack of off-site backup, possible inhibition by some ISPs, and limitations in speed of serving. With

900-548: A feature-limited desktop interface in November 2012, a Fire OS app in June 2014, and an app for Windows 10 in October 2016. Although often admired for its success and influence, Instagram has also been criticized for negatively affecting teens' mental health, its policy and interface changes, its alleged censorship , and illegal and inappropriate content uploaded by users. Instagram began development in San Francisco as Burbn ,

1000-500: A feed of the likes and comments made by users they follow. The change was made official in October, with head of product Vishal Shah stating that the feature was underused and that some users were "surprised" when they realized their activity was being surfaced in this manner. In October 2019, Instagram introduced a limit on the number of posts visible in page scrolling mode unless logged in. Until this point, public profiles had been available to all users, even when not logged in. Following

1100-486: A lack of success in driving adoption. In March 2020, Instagram launched a new feature called "Co-Watching". The new feature allows users to share posts with each other over video calls. According to Instagram, they pushed forward the launch of Co-Watching in order to meet the demand for virtually connecting with friends and family due to social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . In August 2020, Instagram began

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1200-488: A large community of users. Images are the most liked content of the aggregation and media sharing site Reddit; and according to data analyst Randy Olson as of August 2014, nearly 2/3 of all successful posts on the site were links to an image hosted on Imgur. Sharing images via mobile phones has become popular. Several networks and applications have sprung up offering capabilities to share captured photos directly from mobile phones to social networks. The most prominent of these

1300-520: A lower self-esteem in users. The pilot began in May 2019, and was extended to 6 other markets in July. The pilot was expanded worldwide in November 2019. Also in July 2019, Instagram announced that it would implement new features designed to reduce harassment and negative comments on the service. In August 2019, Instagram also began to pilot the removal of the "Following" tab from the app, which had allowed users to view

1400-468: A mobile check-in app created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger . On March 5, 2010, Systrom closed a $ 500,000 (equivalent to $ 682,200 in 2023) seed funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn. Realizing that it was too similar to Foursquare , they refocused their app on photo-sharing, which had become a popular feature among its users. They renamed it Instagram,

1500-531: A new feature allowing users to browse and post GIFs in their comments. That same month, Zuckerberg announced that Meta would start selling blue "verified" badges on Instagram and Facebook. On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads , a social network platform connected to Instagram that allows users to make public shortform blog posts comprising text, photos, and videos, as well as to converse with other users and reblog other users' posts. Threads aims to compete with Twitter . In December 2023, Instagram launched

1600-461: A personal feed . A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS , Android , Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook . It supports 32 languages including English , Hindi , Spanish , French , Korean , and Japanese . Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in

1700-591: A plan to keep the company independently managed. Britain's Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 14, 2012, and on August 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. closed its investigation, allowing the deal to proceed. On September 6, 2012, the deal between Instagram and Facebook officially closed with a purchase price of $ 300 million in cash and 23 million shares of stock. The deal closed just before Facebook's scheduled initial public offering according to CNN . The deal price

1800-427: A podcast titled "Close Friends Only" featuring conversations among celebrities. The first episode featured rappers Ice Spice and Doja Cat . Subsequent episodes in June and August of 2024 featured Reneé Rapp , Rachel Sennott , Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla . In April 2022, Instagram began testing the removal of the ability to see "recent" posts from various hashtags. This change became permanent and system wide

1900-526: A precedent I feel is dangerous". In November 2022, Twitter reinstated Trump's account following Elon Musk 's purchase of the platform. In June 2023, Dorsey endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his campaign to become the Democratic party nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election . In March 2016, Dorsey fully funded about 600 Missouri public school projects registered at DonorsChoose . In October 2019, Dorsey donated $ 350,000 to #TeamTrees ,

2000-521: A private storage area, out of visibility for the public and other users. The move was seen as a way to prevent users from deleting photos that don't garner a desired number of "likes" or are deemed boring, but also as a way to limit the "emergent behavior" of deleting photos, which deprives the service of content. In August, Instagram announced that it would start organizing comments into threads, letting users more easily interact with replies. Since February 2017, up to ten pictures or videos can be included in

2100-430: A prototype of Twitter in about two weeks. The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams , a co-founder of that firm in 2005 who had left Google after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger . Noah Glass , Evan Williams , and Biz Stone co-founded Odeo, later renamed Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter, Inc. Dorsey became Twitter's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As CEO, Dorsey saw

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2200-443: A rapid pace. Some sites including Panoramio and Wikimedia Commons show their geocoded photographs on a map, helping the user find pictures of the same or nearby objects from different directions. Critics of image/photo sharing are concerned with the use of applications such as Instagram, because they believe that the behaviors portrayed on these sites could potentially be linked to the narcissism trait. Keen argues that "Self"

2300-587: A request from Cohen to delay the maintenance so that it would not affect the revolution in Iran, because Iranians were using Twitter to communicate and coordinate. Since President Obama had announced that there would be no meddling in Iran, the move sparked controversy. In February 2010, Dorsey was part of another State Department delegation, this time to Russia. In March 2011, he returned to Twitter as executive chairman after Dick Costolo replaced Williams as CEO. In July 2015, Costolo resigned as CEO, with Dorsey assuming

2400-410: A romantic interest in or view favorably, as well as its #ManCrushMonday counterpart centered on men; and #ThrowbackThursday, in which users post a photo from their past, highlighting a particular moment. In December 2017, Instagram began to allow users to follow hashtags, which display relevant highlights of the topic in their feeds. The ability to search "Recent" hashtags was temporarily disabled during

2500-454: A shared interest in the current state of a field . This method allows crop health to be monitored more quickly and easily than any other way. Jack Dorsey Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and programmer, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. , which

2600-418: A simple and socially focused photo sharing experience. These apps met the need for instant sharing with friends and followers. In recent years, AI and machine learning have become increasingly integrated into photo sharing platforms. AI is being used to improve image quality, automatically tag images with relevant keywords, detect and filter inappropriate content, and create new effects and filters. AI has

2700-487: A single post, with the content appearing as a swipeable carousel . The feature originally limited photos to the square format, but received an update in August to enable portrait and landscape photos instead. In April 2018, Instagram launched its version of a portrait mode called "focus mode", which gently blurs the background of a photo or video while keeping the subject in focus when selected. In November, Instagram began to support Alt text to add descriptions of photos for

2800-537: A square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor, Snapchat , which allowed users to post their content to a sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of January 2019, "stories" are used by 500 million people daily. Instagram

2900-499: A square, 1:1 aspect ratio; since August 2015, the app supports portrait and widescreen aspect ratios as well. Users could formerly view a map of a user's geotagged photos. The feature was removed in September 2016, citing low usage. Since December 2016, posts can be "saved" into a private area of the app. The feature was updated in April 2017 to let users organize saved posts into named collections. Users can also "archive" their posts in

3000-556: A standalone video application. The application was shut down and removed from app stores in March 2022, citing low usage and a shift to short-form video content. On September 24, 2018, Krieger and Systrom announced in a statement they would be stepping down from Instagram. On October 1, 2018, it was announced that Adam Mosseri would be the new head of Instagram. During Facebook F8 , it was announced that Instagram would, beginning in Canada, pilot

3100-559: A valuation of $ 500 million (equivalent to $ 656,100,000 in 2023). Joshua Kushner was the second largest investor in Instagram's Series B fundraising round, leading his investment firm, Thrive Capital , to double its money after the sale to Facebook. On April 3, 2012, Instagram released a version of its app for Android phones, and it was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day. The Android app has since received two significant updates: first, in March 2014, which cut

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3200-499: A year later, and now hashtags can only be used to see a selection of curated content from "top" users. These changes are ostensibly an attempt to hinder the spread of misinformation, while Instagram has also repeatedly stated that hashtags do not help posts get views. In April 2024, Instagram announced that they would start testing new tools "within weeks" to fight sextortion , a form of blackmail involving intimate pictures sent online. On August 2, 2024, Turkey blocked Instagram after

3300-521: Is Instagram , which has quickly become the dominant image sharing-centric social network with over 500 million members. Other applications and networks offering similar service and growing in popularity include Streamzoo , Path , PicsArt , Piictu , and Starmatic . Instagram , Snapchat , and Nice are examples of photo sharing apps with millions of users. Software can be found on the Internet to generate digital photo albums, usually to share photos on

3400-469: Is a board member of the Berggruen Institute 's Governance Center. Dorsey gives advice in a chapter of Tim Ferriss ' book Tools of Titans . Dorsey is a vocal Bitcoin advocate, and has spoken at Bitcoin conferences such as "The B Word". He has said that if he were not working on Twitter and Square, he would be working on Bitcoin. He also endorses and financially supported the development of

3500-452: Is a vehicle to sell prints or other merchandise. These designations are not strict, and some subscription sites have a limited free version. Consumers can share their photos directly from their home computers over high speed connections through peer-to-peer photo sharing using applications. Peer-to-peer photo sharing often carries a small one-time cost for the software. Some sites allow you to post your pictures online and they will then project

3600-718: Is on Market Street in San Francisco . In September 2012, Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc. at US$ 3.2 billion. Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc. On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange . As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4 percent of the company. In March 2020 the FDIC permitted Square to open a bank. It announced plans to launch Square Financial Services in 2021. In May 2020, Dorsey announced that employees of Square would permanently become remote workers . In 2020, for months, Square began withholding up to 30 percent of

3700-411: Is running digital culture, and he states that people use social-media platforms because they are interested in advertising themselves. Buffardi and Campbell (2008) also alleged that Instagram offers "a gateway for self-promotion via self-descriptions, vanity via photos, and a large amount of shallow relationships." However, they later said that the large number of users suggests the general psychology of

3800-547: Is sharing images, generally using peer-to-peer networking. Basic image sharing functionality can be found in applications that allow you to email photos, for example by dragging and dropping them into pre-designed templates . Photo sharing is not confined to the web and personal computers, but is also possible from portable devices such as camera phones , either directly or via MMS. Some cameras now come equipped with wireless networking and similar sharing functionality themselves. The first photo sharing sites originated during

3900-508: Is the developer of the Square financial services platform. As of October 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $ 3.1 billion. Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis , Missouri. His father is Tim Dorsey and his mother is Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey. Jack Dorsey is partly of Italian descent on his mother's side. His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother

4000-577: Is the only free method for a user to reach past their existing followers. Photo sharing While photoblogs tend only to display a chronological view of user-selected medium-sized photos, most photo sharing sites provide multiple views (such as thumbnails and slideshows ), the ability to classify photos into albums, and add annotations (such as captions or tags ). Desktop photo management applications may include their own photo-sharing features or integration with sites for uploading images to them. There are also desktop applications whose sole function

4100-497: The 2016 presidential election . Following this testimony, Twitter shares fell six percent. Dorsey met privately with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House and discussed Trump's concerns that Twitter had limited or removed some of his Twitter followers, and those of conservatives. After the meeting, Dorsey tweeted that their discussion included making Twitter "healthier and more civil". A week earlier, Dorsey took part in

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4200-525: The Nostr social networking protocol. In 2012, Dorsey moved to the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco . In 2015, Dorsey said he began his mornings with meditation. In late 2017, Dorsey completed ten days of meditation known as Vipassanā taught by followers of S. N. Goenka . In November 2018, Dorsey went on a birthday Vipassanā meditation trip to Myanmar . In 2019, Dorsey contributed financially to

4300-558: The Windows 10 Mobile app was discontinued, though the mobile website remains available as a progressive web application (PWA) with limited functionality. The app remains available on Windows 10 computers and tablets, also updated to a PWA in 2020. To comply with the GDPR regulations regarding data portability , Instagram introduced the ability for users to download an archive of their user data in April 2018. IGTV launched on June 20, 2018, as

4400-481: The online availability of photos, more storage space, the ability for non-account holders to download full-size, original versions of photos, and tools for backing up photos. Some offer user photographs for sale, splitting the proceeds with the photographer , while others may use a disclaimer to reserve the right to use or sell the photos without giving the photographer royalties or notice. Some image sharing sites have begun integrating video sharing as well. With

4500-420: The 2020 U.S. elections, to prevent the spread of misinformation. In 2022 this was again tested on some users, and in April 2023 the ability to search recent hashtags was removed entirely. Now, users are only able to see a curated selection of "popular" posts using a given hashtag. Instagram said that this is to prevent abuse and so that hashtags do not help users gain views, but it has been noted that using hashtags

4600-615: The Instagram iOS app was officially released through the App Store . In February 2011, it was reported that Instagram had raised $ 7 million (equivalent to $ 9,357,057 in 2023) in Series A funding from a variety of investors, including Benchmark Capital , Jack Dorsey , Chris Sacca (through Capital fund), and Adam D'Angelo . The deal valued Instagram at around $ 20 million. In April 2012, Instagram raised $ 50 million (equivalent to $ 65,610,000 in 2023) from venture capitalists with

4700-537: The app's launch it had used the Foursquare API technology to provide named location tagging. In March 2014, Instagram started to test and switch the technology to use Facebook Places . In June 2015, the desktop website user interface was redesigned to become more flat and minimalistic , but with more screen space for each photo and to resemble the layout of Instagram's mobile website. Furthermore, one row of pictures only has three instead of five photos to match

4800-492: The app. However, Instagram discontinued this version of Threads in December 2021, mainly due to most of its features being rolled out on Instagram itself, as well as low usage compared to other social media applications. Threads was not well-received among Instagram's user base. Since its launch, only approximately 220,000 users globally downloaded the app, which represented less than 0.1% of Instagram's monthly active users, indicating

4900-459: The board of directors of Bluesky Social , a Twitter spin-off developing a decentralized social networking protocol and app . In May 2024, he announced he was no longer on the board of directors. He instead endorsed X , which he called "freedom technology". In a 2024 interview, Dorsey said that Bluesky's shift toward a traditional corporate structure and the introduction of centralized moderation tools were major factors behind his leaving

5000-438: The board of directors of the social network. In October 2022, Dorsey retained his 2.4% ownership of Twitter when the company was sold to Elon Musk . Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey , developed a small business platform to accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile device called Square , released in May 2010. The small, square-shaped device attaches to iPhone , iPad , iPod Touch , or Android devices via

5100-474: The campaigns of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard (now Republican ) and Andrew Yang . In 2020, he donated $ 15 million to 29 mayors pursuing the piloting of guaranteed basic income programs in the United States. Until 2021, Dorsey applied "world leader" exceptions that enabled President Donald Trump to post content on Twitter that would normally be removed or generate sanctions per

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5200-462: The change, after viewing a number of posts a pop-up requires the user to log in to continue viewing content. That month, Instagram launched a separate app known as Threads. Similar to Snapchat , the app allowed users to communicate through messaging and video chats. It was integrated with Instagram's "Close friends" feature, so that users could send images, photos, and texts privately to others, and also had Instagram's photo editing system embedded into

5300-604: The committee, led the charge to force the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google to testify about the legal immunity the tech platforms receive under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1996. He announced his immediate resignation as Twitter's CEO on November 29, 2021. Dorsey was replaced by the company's former CTO Parag Agrawal , who took over as CEO. Dorsey continued to lead as the CEO of Block, Inc. In May 2022, Dorsey left

5400-583: The company shares, are simplicity, constraint, and craftsmanship. On October 16, 2008, Williams took over as CEO, while Dorsey became chairman of the board. During his time as chairman, Dorsey joined several State Department delegations, including a trip to Iraq in April 2009, led by Jared Cohen . In November, when Iranians took to the streets in the Green Revolution , Twitter was scheduled to conduct maintenance of its site, which would entail temporarily shutting down Twitter's servers. Dorsey responded to

5500-509: The company. In 2013, Dorsey expressed his admiration of Michael Bloomberg to CNN , and said he aspires to become mayor of New York City . He served as a judge for Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in 2011. On December 24, 2013, Dorsey was announced as a new member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company . In January 2018, it was reported that Dorsey would not seek reelection at Disney's March annual meeting, due to increased difficulty with conflicts of interest. Dorsey

5600-652: The emergence of social networks , image sharing has now become a common online activity. For example, in Great Britain, 70% of online users engaged in image sharing in 2013; 64% of British users shared their photos through a social network. Facebook stated in 2015 that there were approximately two billion images uploaded to its service daily. In terms of image sharing, Facebook is the largest social networking service. On Facebook, people can upload and share their photo albums individually, and collaboratively with shared albums. This feature allows multiple users to upload pictures to

5700-441: The face of another Facebook user in new photos, and suggest that the user be tagged in the photo. A Ghent University study found that employers commonly search for prospective employees on Facebook, and may decide whether or not to grant an interview based on the person's profile picture. The increasing ease of use has encouraged image sharing in insurance , including crop insurance . The insurance company and farmer have

5800-682: The file size of the app by half and added performance improvements; then in April 2017, to add an offline mode that allows users to view and interact with content without an Internet connection. At the time of the announcement, it was reported that 80% of Instagram's 600 million users were located outside the U.S., and while the aforementioned functionality was live at its announcement, Instagram also announced its intention to make more features available offline, and that they were "exploring an iOS version". On April 9, 2012, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) bought Instagram for $ 1 billion (equivalent to $ 1,312,000,000 in 2023) in cash and stock, with

5900-469: The funds that merchants collected from customers using its Cash App . On December 1, 2021, CEO Jack Dorsey officially changed the name of the platform to Block, Inc. This was due in part to his interest in the blockchain as well as the new name encompassing the various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services. The stock ticker for Block, Inc. would remain "SQ". In February 2022, Dorsey joined

6000-463: The galleries and artist's pictures. Broad taxonomies have interesting properties like the power law . The use of Artificial Intelligence to classify uploaded photos by subject, theme, or location is a prominent feature of Raise that Canon-USA launched early March 2019. Photo tagging is the process that allows users to tag and group photos of an individual or individuals. With facial recognition software tagging photos can become quicker and easier;

6100-406: The headphone jack, and as a mini card reader, allows a person to swipe their card, choose an amount to transfer to the recipient and then sign their name for confirmation. Square is also a system for sending paperless receipts via text message or email, and is available as a free app for iOS and Android OS. The company grew from 10 employees in December 2009 to over 100 by June 2011. Square's office

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6200-410: The idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service. When he first saw implementations of instant messaging , Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends. He approached Odeo , which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging . Dorsey and Biz Stone decided that SMS text suited the status-message idea, and built

6300-606: The idea that eventually became Twitter while studying at New York University. While working on dispatching as a programmer, Dorsey moved to California . In 2000, Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a "frictionless service market". In July 2000, building on dispatching and inspired in part by LiveJournal and by AOL Instant Messenger , he had

6400-522: The image onto famous buildings during special events, while other sites let you insert photos into digital postcards, slide shows and photo albums and send them to others. Some free sites are owned by camera manufacturers, and only accept photos made with their hardware. In return for a fee, subscription-based photo sharing sites offer their services without the distraction of advertisements or promotions for prints and gifts. They may also have other enhancements over free services, such as guarantees regarding

6500-407: The introduction of high speed (broadband) connections directly to homes, it is feasible to share images and videos without going through a central service. The advantages of peer-to-peer sharing are reduced hosting costs and no loss of control to a central service. The downsides are that the consumer does not get the benefit of off-site backup; consumer Internet service providers (ISPs) often prohibit

6600-543: The members is normative. Privacy activists and researchers have noted that the sharing of images on social networks may compromise the privacy of people depicted in them. Further, most current social networks afford their users little control over content that they did not post themselves. In its privacy policy , Facebook states that any information posted using its service, including images, may be used to display relevant ads to its users. Facebook utilizes automatic facial recognition software that can automatically recognize

6700-466: The mid to late 1990s, primarily from services providing online ordering of prints ( photo finishing ), but many more came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralized access to a user's photos, and in some cases video clips too. Webshots , SmugMug , Yahoo! Photos and Flickr were among the first. This has resulted in different approaches to revenue generation and functionality among providers. In 1995, Webshots

6800-429: The mobile layout. The slideshow banner on the top of profile pages, which simultaneously slide-showed seven picture tiles of pictures posted by the user, alternating at different times in a random order, has been removed. In addition, the formerly angular profile pictures became circular. In April 2016, Instagram released a Windows 10 Mobile app, after years of demand from Microsoft and the public to release an app for

6900-434: The more tagging done of an individual the more accurate the software can be. This type of software is currently in use on Facebook. Photo tagging is a way of labeling photos so that viewers can know who is who in the picture. On most online photo sharing sites such as Facebook , a tag can also be used as a link that when clicked will take you to the person's profile that was tagged. Most of the time photos can only be tagged by

7000-450: The most popular on the platform often highlight a specific day of the week to post the material on. Examples of popular trends include #SelfieSunday, in which users post a photo of their faces on Sundays; #MotivationMonday, in which users post motivational photos on Mondays; #TransformationTuesday, in which users post photos highlighting differences from the past to the present; #WomanCrushWednesday, in which users post photos of women they have

7100-482: The name of a location. Users can set their account as "private", thereby requiring that they approve any new follower requests. Users can connect their Instagram account to other social networking sites, enabling them to share uploaded photos to those sites. In September 2011, a new version of the app included new and live filters , instant tilt–shift , high-resolution photographs, optional borders, one-click rotation, and an updated icon. Photos were initially restricted to

7200-434: The peer-to-peer model is peer-to-browser, whereby images are shared on one PC with the use of a local (on the host computer) software service (much like peer-to-peer) but made available to the viewer through a standard web browser . Technically speaking, this may still be described as peer-to-peer (with the second peer being a web browser) but it is characteristically different as it assumes no need to download peer software for

7300-519: The people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves." In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $ 530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation to $ 1.59 million. In March 2018, Dorsey announced that an improved version of the verification system would be coming to Twitter. The purpose of redesigning verification

7400-439: The platform deleted posts from users offering condolences for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh . On November 25, 2024, Instagram announced the introduction of the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages) for up to one hour. This new feature is only available in select countries. Users can upload photographs and short videos, follow other users' feeds, and geotag images with

7500-461: The platform's rules. In May 2020, some of Trump's tweets received warning labels, and from Election Day in November 2020, more flaggings were applied to his tweets. On January 6, 2021, after pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol , Twitter applied a 12-hour timeout to Trump's account for violating its Civic Integrity policy. Trump's account was suspended permanently on January 8. On January 14, Dorsey defended banning Trump but also said it "sets

7600-454: The platform. The platform previously had a beta version of Instagram, first released on November 21, 2013, for Windows Phone 8 . The new app added support for videos (viewing and creating posts or stories, and viewing live streams), album posts and direct messages. Similarly, an app for Windows 10 personal computers and tablets was released in October 2016. In May, Instagram updated its mobile website to allow users to upload photos, and to add

7700-499: The post of interim CEO. He was named permanent CEO in October 2015. In May 2016, Dorsey announced that Twitter would not count photos and links in the 140-character limit to free up more space for text. This was an attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped from about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014 to about 300 million in January 2016. On November 22, 2016, Dorsey

7800-475: The potential to revolutionize the way people share photos, making it easier for them to share better-looking images and find relevant images. Image sharing sites can be broadly broken up into two groups: sites that offer photo sharing for free and sites that charge consumers directly to host and share images. Of the sites that offer free photo sharing, most can be broken up into advertising-supported media plays and online photo finishing sites, where photo sharing

7900-457: The potentiality of tracking places. Geotagging can reveal the footprints and behaviors of travelers by utilizing spatial proximity of geo-tagged photos that are shared online, making it possible to extract travel information relating to a particular location. Instagram, Flickr, and Panoramio are a few services that provide the option of geotagging images. Flickr has over 40 million geotagged photos uploaded by 400 thousand users, and still growing at

8000-525: The presented images, and hence often play a significant role in the community building and identity formation of and the entertainment in online communities that allow the creation of broad folksonomies. Geotagging a photo is the process in which a photo is marked with the geographical identification of the place it was taken. Most technology with photo taking capabilities are equipped with GPS system sensors that routinely geotag photos and videos. Crowdsourced data available from photo-sharing services have

8100-688: The problem as possibly being DNS -related. On March 17, 2022, Zuckerberg confirmed plans to add non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to the platform. In September 2022, Ireland 's Data Protection Commission fined the company $ 402 million under privacy laws recently adopted by the European Union over how it handled the privacy data of minors. After being trialled in mid-2022, Instagram introduced Notes in December 2022. This feature allows users to share updates as short text posts of up to 60 characters with certain people, who can then reply to them using messaging on Instagram. In February 2023, Instagram introduced

8200-467: The publication that it was only a concept. On December 6, 2016, Instagram introduced comment liking. However, unlike post likes, the user who posted a comment does not receive notifications about comment likes in their notification inbox. Uploaders can optionally decide to deactivate comments on a post. The mobile website allows uploading pictures since May 4, 2017. Image filters and the ability to upload videos were not introduced then. On April 30, 2019,

8300-553: The removal of ability to share feed posts to stories. In March 2021, Instagram launched a new feature in which four people can go live at once. Instagram also announced that adults would not be allowed to message teens who don't follow them as part of a series of new child safety policies. In May 2021, Instagram began allowing users in some regions to add pronouns to their profile page. On October 4, 2021, Meta services suffered their worst outage since 2008, bringing down Instagram, Facebook , and WhatsApp . Security experts identified

8400-457: The removal of publicly displayed " like " counts for content posted by other users. Like counts would only be visible to the user who originally posted the content. Mosseri stated that this was intended to have users "worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they care about." It has been argued that low numbers of likes in relativity to others could contribute to

8500-518: The same album, and the album's creator has the ability to add or delete contributors. Twitter collaborated with Photobucket in developing a new photo sharing service so users can attach a picture to a tweet without depending on another application such as TwitPic or Yfrog. As of June 2016, there were more than 500 million monthly active Instagram users. Image sharing on social news and image aggregation sites such as Reddit , Imgur , 4chan , Pinterest and Tumblr allow users to share images with

8600-447: The serving of content both by contract and through the implementation of network filtering, and there are few quality guarantees for recipients. However, there are typically no direct consumer costs beyond the purchase of the initial software, provided the consumer already has a computer with the photos at home on a high speed connection. Applications like Tonido provide peer-to-peer photo sharing. Operating peer-to-peer solutions without

8700-520: The startup through two rounds of funding by venture capitalists. He reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and fashion design . As the service began to grow in popularity, Dorsey chose the improvement of uptime as top priority, even over creating revenue—which, as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn. Dorsey described the commercial use of Twitter and its API as two things that could lead to paid features. His three guiding principles, which he says

8800-544: The user to uploads the photo but on some sites photos can be tagged by other users as well. These tags can be searched for across the entire Internet, on separate websites or in private data bases. They can be used for crowdsourced classification (see the section on image classification ) but can also play a socio-cultural role in that they can establish neologisms , Internet memes , snowclones , slogans , catch phrases , shared vocabularies and categorizations as well as producing comedic twists, contexts and perspectives of

8900-409: The viewer. Photos are accessed by regular URLs that standard web browsers understand natively without any further software required. Consequently, photos shared in this way are accessible not only to users who have downloaded the correct peer software (compatible with the software in use by the sharer). Peer-to-browser sharing has (similar to peer-to-peer) reduced hosting costs, no loss of control to

9000-824: The visually impaired. They are either generated automatically using object recognition (using existing Facebook technology) or manually specified by the uploader. On March 1, 2021, Instagram launched a new feature named Instagram Live Rooms, which lets four people go live together. In May 2021, Instagram announced a new accessibility feature for videos on Instagram Reels and Stories to allow creators to place closed captions on their content. In January 2011, Instagram introduced hashtags to help users discover both photos and each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant, rather than tagging generic words like "photo", to make photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagram users. Users on Instagram have created "trends" through hashtags. The trends deemed

9100-462: The web, using a home web server. In general, this is for advanced users that want to have better control over the appearance of their web albums and the actual servers they are going to run on. Image sharing sites usually propose several ways to classify images. Most sites propose at least a taxonomy where images can be grouped within a directory-like structure in so-called "galleries". Some sites also allow users to classify images using tags to build

9200-613: Was a homemaker. He was raised Catholic , and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati . Dorsey attended Bishop DuBourg High School . In his younger days, he worked occasionally as a fashion model. By age 14, he had become interested in dispatch routing . Dorsey enrolled at the University of Missouri–Rolla in 1995 and attended for two-plus years before transferring to New York University in 1997, but he dropped out two years later, one semester short of graduating. He came up with

9300-496: Was an earnings miss off a third quarter report, which Twitter blamed on ad targeting problems. Dorsey had been making a concerted effort to dampen the effect that Twitter had on political elections, which entailed banning all political ads. This was also seen as a large contributor to the drop. Dorsey announced that, as of November 22, 2019, Twitter would ban all political advertising. The policy applies globally to all marketing campaigns about political issues. On February 29, 2020, it

9400-525: Was announced that activist hedge fund Elliott Management led by billionaire Paul Singer was looking to oust Dorsey and nominate four directors to Twitter's board, including Elliott's senior portfolio manager Jesse Cohn. The two parties reached an agreement days later, with Dorsey remaining CEO. In October 2020, Dorsey was one of several tech firm CEOs subpoenaed by the US Senate Commerce Committee . Republican Roger Wicker , who chaired

9500-417: Was briefly suspended from his own Twitter account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted that the suspension was due to an "internal mistake". Twitter introduced recommendation algorithms in the main feed in 2016. Dorsey wrote in 2022 that "The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for

9600-464: Was compared to the $ 35 million Yahoo! paid for Flickr in 2005. Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was "committed to building and growing Instagram independently." According to Wired , the deal netted Systrom $ 400 million. In November 2012, Instagram launched website profiles, allowing anyone to see user feeds from a web browser with limited functionality, as well as a selection of badges , and web widget buttons to link to profiles. Since

9700-486: Was founded, quickly becoming popular due to its vibrant photography community and effective tagging system. The 2010s saw the rise of mobile apps and cloud storage . The advent of smartphones with high-quality cameras and the availability of cloud storage services such as Google Photos , Dropbox , and iCloud Photo Library revolutionized the way people take, store, and access their photos. Mobile apps such as Instagram , Snapchat , and TikTok emerged, offering

9800-402: Was launched for iOS in October 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger . It rapidly gained popularity, reaching 1   million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and 1 billion in June 2018. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately US$ 1 billion in cash and stock. The Android version of Instagram was released in April 2012, followed by

9900-502: Was one of the first online photo sharing platforms. Webshots offered an easy-to-use interface and basic photo editing tools. In 2002, SmugMug was founded, focusing on providing a high-quality photo sharing experience for professional photographers. SmugMug offers features such as custom photo galleries and e-commerce options. In 2003, Yahoo! Photos was one of the most popular photo sharing platforms thanks to its integration with Yahoo's email and search services. In 2004, Flickr

10000-478: Was to let people verify more facts about themselves, emphasizing proof of identity. The overhaul was not in place before the U.S midterm election of 2018 to help in verifying the identities of the candidates. In September 2018, Dorsey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about the use of social media by Russia and others to meddle in

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