Showing posts with label instagram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instagram. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2025

"Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds"

It's like the Sith cave in Episode 8:

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Instagram filter blurs people



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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Very good Instagram captions



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Friday, July 26, 2019

"Millions of young people are turning their personal Instagram accounts into 'business' profiles to learn more about how their posts are performing"

LAT:
In Instagram’s settings, there’s an option called “Get More Tools.” If users click the link, they’re asked if they’re a “creator” or a “business.” After choosing one of those professional options, they’re asked what contact information they want to display. Then they’re rewarded with a host of charts about how they’re performing on Instagram, including what days and times people view their posts, which ones were the most popular and how often and by what gender their profile is seen.

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“I’ll talk to parents and say, ‘Did you know that if your 13-year-old turns their Instagram account into a business account, more than 1 billion people have access to their contact information?’”
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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Ten funny tweets
















































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Sunday, June 2, 2019

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

NY Post on Elizabeth Holmes and her fiancee

NYPost:
“He gave her his MIT signet ring,” said the colleague, who worked with Evans at Luminar Technologies, a Palo Alto, Calif., firm that produces sensors for self-driving cars. “Billy and the MIT ring, they are inseparable. He always wore it on his pinky finger.

“He could snap his fingers and have a triple-A diamond engagement ring instantly if he wanted to. But if you give her some extravagant ring, it could end up owned by the feds if she has to give up her material possessions.”

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“I met two of his ex-girlfriends. They were both Instagram models, and he was super proud of that fact,” the colleague said. “He would date young, absolutely drop-dead-gorgeous girls [with big followings].”

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After graduation, Evans tried to create a health-care startup that would charge wealthy Chinese people a large fee to be shuttled to the US for concierge medical attention
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

"Locating The Netherlands’ Most Wanted Criminal By Scrutinising Instagram"

Step-by-step guide, including use of several Chrome plugins:
A fugitive convict from the Netherlands is taunting Dutch police with provocative pictures and videos from Iran, playing a game of “catch me if you can” on Instagram. “I love my freedom. And the weather,” he has stated.

Bellingcat was able to reveal the last known location of the criminal with the help of over 60 Twitter users. Here’s how we did that.
Related: Reply All's episode about Paul Le Roux.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

"Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content"

Atlantic:
A decade ago, shilling products to your fans may have been seen as selling out. Now it’s a sign of success.

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When a local amusement park paid several bloggers to attend the venue and post about their experience there, Joshi, a fashion and lifestyle influencer, went on her own dime and posted promotional posts as if she were part of the bigger influencer campaign.

Taylor Evans took the fake-“sponcon” game one step further, once faking the entire purpose of a trip to Miami. Technically, she was just there on vacation, paying her own way for everything, but on Instagram she positioned it as an exclusive press trip. “I took a lot of pics at restaurants and posted ‘Thanks so much XYZ restaurant for the hospitality!’” she said. “You say it in a way that people could interpret it as you having an established relationship with that brand … The hope is that it’s perceived in a way that looks like there’s a reason you’re in a different city and state, not just enjoying a weekend vacation.”

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For the average consumer, things become blurry quickly. Many fashion influencers tag the brands they’re using in photos, whether the clothes were purchased, given to them for free, or are part of an ad campaign. Lifestyle blogging is all about seamlessly monetizing your good taste and consumer choices, which means it can be near-impossible for laypeople to tell if an influencer genuinely loves a product, is being paid to talk about it, or just wants to be paid to talk about it.
When I started this blog, the tags "Disney," "advertising," and "video games" were actually useful ways of distinguishing stories...
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Friday, December 14, 2018

Cheap Old Houses Instagram feed has become too popular



I have a public service announcement to make! I started this feed as a service to gather together a community of people who love and respect older homes that have been neglected and need TLC. I’m super proud of all the homes I’ve helped land in the hands of people who truly love them. That said, the feed has gotten more wildly popular than I could ever have imagined. I’m kind of an idealist, and hate thinking that I’d ever do anything to harm someone else’s good intentions. That said, it’s never been MY intention to create wars over cheap old houses (seriously, I never in my wildest dreams thought that could even be a thing). Please, PLEASE do me a favor: If you are planning to look at a house that is for sale for under $100,000 and have serious intentions to buy it, and if I haven’t already posted it, PLEASE send me a message and let me know and I will NOT post it! 💛💛💛 Thank you!!!!
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Monday, July 16, 2018

"Why Some of Instagram's Biggest Memers Are Locking Their Accounts"

Atlantic:
Over the past six months, some of Instagram’s biggest meme pages—like Shithead Steve . . . have locked down their accounts, forcing non-followers to request access in order to view their content.

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Reid Hailey, the founder of Doing Things, a media company that manages a network of Instagram pages with a collective 14 million followers, says that around 75 percent of the accounts he oversees are set to private. “If you’re public, people just always see your stuff and they don’t feel the need to follow you,” he says. Hailey sees it as partial relief for stagnant follower counts: “It didn’t really become a mainstream thing until the algorithm started hitting hard I would say about six months ago or so. People are hurting for growth. A lot of meme pages aren’t really growing.”

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“It’s a frowned-upon practice in the meme-page community because it makes your account feel far less genuine,”
Related:
The Twitch Streamers Who Spend Years Broadcasting to No One

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“I tried the follow4follow technique… but no one ever took the next step and watched my channel,” Twitch user Flummoxkid says. “Nothing but a bunch of hollow follows.
And:
Recently at the Anaheim Convention Center, about 50 people entered a room decorated as a stylish lounge for a speed dating event. They moved from table to table every 20 minutes, exchanging small talk and getting to know each other.

But the participants were not looking for love. They were YouTube stars and marketing executives from companies like Uber and Amazon seeking an advertising union.

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Adam Wescott, a partner and co-founder of Select Management Group, an agency that manages numerous top YouTube performers, said one advertiser had stipulated the amount of cleavage that one of his clients could show. When that creator posted an Instagram photo — unrelated to the advertiser’s campaign — with more than the permissible cleavage, Mr. Wescott had to tell her to take down the photo.

Increasingly, he wants the same right for his clients because they have just as much to lose if a company becomes embroiled in scandal, such as the right to take down a video sponsored by a company if that brand’s executives are caught sexually harassing staff.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

At three years old, "she already has more than 3 million Instagram followers"

BF:
Mila and her twin sister, Emma, have grown up on their mom’s Instagram account. “Welcome to the world sweet nameless girls,” the caption on a photo from 2014 reads — the babies’ faces are new and puffy, their eyes closed. Their C-sections were posted to Katie’s YouTube account the following year.
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Last month, I met the Stauffer family at their home on a quiet street in Arizona, hoping to see what it is actually like to run an Instagram business empire centered around a toddler.
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Prior to the publication of this article, Katie posted an Instagram Story to her millions of followers, tagging my Instagram handle, saying that I conducted the interview under false pretenses.

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Katie said that on an average day, she usually has a certain number of photos she has to take to fulfill obligations to her sponsors. She also needs to take “normal” pictures to ensure her feed isn’t all ads.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

"The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed"

Atlantic:
“In this challenge, I’m going to take a brand new Shopify store to over one thousand dollars,” he says. “So I invite you to follow along with me as I take this brand new store from 0, literally 0, to over one thousand dollars in the next seven days.”

In the corner of YouTube dedicated to e-commerce, these videos are a bit of a phenomenon, racking up hundreds of thousands of views for highly detailed explanations of how to set up an e-commerce shop on the Internet.

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Ganon’s videos are particularly fascinating in describing the mechanics of digital advertising through Instagram and Facebook.

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But for those that don’t, merely by visiting his site, they’ve been tagged in Facebook’s system because Ganon has installed a standard Facebook tracking pixel. That means Ganon can now re-target those people who visited but left without purchasing anything through Facebook.

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Just by arriving on the page while logged into Facebook, you’ve placed yourself in a custom audience that can be targeted on the Facebook back end.

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But there was something else going on, too. Ganon posted the videos in real time. So, as the first video began to circulate, other people—following his instructions exactly—began to create shops also selling lion bracelets.
Related: "Hhusali i7 Right Earbud: The Select All Review"
Last week, Amazon put up one hell of a lightning deal: AirPods, for just $20! That’s a pretty good deal considering a fresh, new pair of Apple’s wireless earbuds would usually cost you $160

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The one big catch with these earbuds is that is was actually an earbud — you only got one. The right earbud, to be specific.

It’s not tough to see what’s going on here. Before its Amazon account was suspended (as it currently appears to be), electronics brand Hhusali was probably able to move a decent amount of fake AirPods.
Also: "A porn website stole a French karate teacher’s identity, founded a cryptocurrency for porn, then vanished."
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

"Two of Chicago’s top social media personalities, who happen to have very similar feeds, are clashing about who’s copying whom"

"We combed the two Instagram feeds to find the most recent posts that mirror each other."
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

"hoards of top Instagrammers have been geotagging their posts with 'Singapore, Singapore,' in an attempt to go viral"

Mic:
In the past two weeks alone, internet stars such as King Bach, Amanda Cerny, Lele Pons, Dan "King of Instagram" Bilzerian, Christian Collins, Logan Paul, Jerry Purpdrank, Sommer Ray and others have all been ostensibly posting from Singapore, when in fact most never left Los Angeles and none have been traveling to Asia.

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When questioned about this approach, none of the internet celebrities I spoke with seemed to fully understand how the trick works or why it gained popularity.

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It's also worth noting that none of these stars previously had a significant portion of their audience based in Singapore. Their attempts to game the feed are aimed at reaching U.S. audiences.

"You keep Singapore up for 12 hours, then you change it," said one verified Instagram user. "It's fully ridiculous and dumb, but it works. I'm not sure why or if it's just because it's become a meme, but the 'Singapore, Singapore' posts do way better. It 100% works."
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Link roundup

1. Time's Instagram accounts of the year.

2. "There has been a dead cockroach in the anthropology building's stairwell for at least two weeks. Some enterprising person has now made her a little shrine."

3. "for the second time in two months, a rare venomous sea serpent has washed up on a local beach hundreds of miles from its normal haunts"
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Link roundup

1. America's scariest motel is The Clown Motel. "As if it couldn't be any more horrifying, The Clown Motel shares a lot with a cemetery full of gold miners who died from a plague."

2. The Guardian (which goes to speculate the owner may have kept the photographs for blackmail purposes):
CIA facial software uncovers the artist Francis Bacon – in drag
A photograph in a Guardian article about Soho photographer John Deakin has been revealed as a picture of artist Francis Bacon in drag.
3. "Kanye West revealed that his and Kim Kardashian's second wedding photo—which is the current world record holder for Most Liked Photo on Instagram—took over four days to compose"

4. Solothurn, Switzerland, is looking to hire a full-time hermit, to live in their hermitage. The job description includes, “Along with acting as caretaker and sacristan, responsibilities include interaction with the many visitors.”
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