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Slideshows about Instagram

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  In Pictures: The earliest days of your favourite social networks

  Wondering who sent the first Tweet or posted the first pet photo to Instagram? The answers may surprise you (and are definitely cute, when it comes to pets)

  In Pictures: The earliest days of your favourite social networks

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News about Instagram

• Instagram faces $402M fine for alleged mishandling of children’s data

  Parent company Meta plans to appeal the decision by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which is the second-largest, privacy-based fine on record.

• Instagram open sources high-performance Python fork

  By making the Cinder project publicly available, social media giant wants to open conversation about upstreaming its performance optimisations to standard Python.

• Instagram adds tool for users to flag false information

  Posting false information is not banned on any of Facebook's suite of social media services, but the company is taking steps to limit the reach ...

• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffer outages

  Facebook has not revealed the cause of the outages

• Instagram surges past Twitter to become 2nd biggest social network

  Instagram and its owner Facebook now own the top of the social networking world

• React JavaScript library gets new tools

  Defined API is featured for working with internals; tree view and component-searching also are featured

Features about Instagram

• Instagram finally lets you do the switcheroo between accounts

  Photo sharing app Instagram eases the pain of managing multiple accounts on iOS and Android devices

• When tech titans join forces: The verdict on 6 big mergers

  Some things go together like peanut butter and jelly. Others are more like peanut butter and motor oil. The joining of tech titans is no ...

• Facebook coughs up $19bn to buy WhatsApp, draw younger users

  Purchase of messaging app company also seen as boosting Facebook's mobile presence

• One year under Mayer, Yahoo no longer 'dead company walking'

  In her first year as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer focused on acquisitions, mobile

• 12 simple steps to safer social networking

  Follow our privacy tips for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram to ensure that you're not oversharing.

• 11 winning alternatives to Windows 8's built-in apps

  Not all of the new Windows 8 apps are 5-star winners. Allow us to suggest some worthy options.