Instagram is 10 years old and introduces anti-bullying feature – Tablets and Phones – News

Facebook subsidiary Instagram has been around for ten years on Tuesday, the company has announced. The company marks the anniversary with a new anti-bullying feature by notifying people who want to post certain comments that those comments can be removed.

When people repeatedly try to post comments that Instagram thinks will be offensive, warns the company those users that it will presumably delete those comments. That should discourage posting such comments. The idea is that by providing real-time feedback, users reread what they wanted to post to see how it might come across.

The advent of the function coincides with the tenth anniversary of Instagram, on Tuesday. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released the iPhone version of the app, then only focused on photo sharing, on October 6, 2010. Instagram followed up on Burbn, an app to check in on locations and see where contacts are located .

The app only offered the possibility to upload square photos with a resolution of 640 pixels, the width of the screen of the then common iPhone 4 and 4S, with 960×640 pixels. In addition, users could add filters to hide the fact that their phones were not taking extremely sharp or beautiful photos.

The Android version didn’t follow until 2012. Facebook took over Instagram that year for a billion dollars. Then twelve people worked at the company. Growth was mainly due to the fact that famous people started to use the app and thereby encourage their fans to use it.

Systrom en warrior worked at Instagram until 2018, which functioned relatively independently within Facebook for a long time. In those years, Instagram was sparingly adding advertising to the app to make money, initially one approved ad per day. The most famous added feature is Snapchat Clone Stories. Not only the functions have been taken over from the competitor, but also the name.

In recent years, Facebook has taken the reins at Instagram. The parent company is now pushing more ads and has the various messaging services integrated with each other.

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