76 Facts About Instagram Stories

Instagram Stories is a photo and video sharing social networking service founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and later acquired by American company Facebook Inc, now known as Meta Platforms.

Instagram Stories was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time.

Instagram Stories began development in San Francisco as Burbn, a mobile check-in app created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

In November 2012, Instagram Stories launched website profiles, allowing anyone to see user feeds from a web browser with limited functionality, as well as a selection of badges, web widget buttons to link to profiles.

In March 2014, Instagram Stories started to test and switch the technology to use Facebook Places.

Related searches

Also in July 2019, Instagram Stories announced that it would implement new features designed to reduce harassment and negative comments on the service.

In October 2019, Instagram Stories introduced a limit on the number of posts visible in page scrolling mode unless logged in.

In February 2021, Instagram began testing a new feature called Vertical Stories, said by some sources to be inspired by TikTok.

In March 2021, Instagram Stories launched a new feature in which four people can go live at once.

Instagram Stories 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 Stories began allowing users in some regions to add pronouns to their profile page.

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 Stories introduced hashtags to help users discover both photos and each other.

Instagram Stories 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 Stories users.

In December 2017, Instagram Stories began to allow users to follow hashtags, which display relevant highlights of the topic in their feeds.

In June 2012, Instagram Stories introduced "Explore", a tab inside the app that displays popular photos, photos taken at nearby locations, and search.

The tab was later expanded again in November 2016 after Instagram Stories Live launched to display an algorithmically curated page of the "best" Instagram Stories Live videos currently airing.

In May 2017, Instagram updated the Explore tab to promote public Stories content from nearby places.

Instagram Stories offers a number of photographic filters that users can apply to their images.

In February 2012, Instagram Stories added a "Lux" filter, an effect that "lightens shadows, darkens highlights and increases contrast".

In November 2019, it was reported that Instagram Stories had begun to pilot a new video feature known as "Reels" in Brazil, expanding to France and Germany afterwards.

In July 2020, Instagram Stories rolled out Reels to India after TikTok was banned in the country.

Instagram Stories has recently introduced a reel button on home page.

In December 2013, Instagram Stories announced Instagram Stories Direct, a feature that lets users interact through private messaging.

In January 2017, Instagram launched skippable ads, where five-second photo and 15-second video ads appear in-between different stories.

Related searches

In May 2017, Instagram Stories expanded the augmented reality sticker feature to support face filters, letting users add specific visual features onto their faces.

In June 2017, Instagram Stories revised its live-video functionality to allow users to add their live broadcast to their story for availability in the next 24 hours, or discard the broadcast immediately.

Instagram Stories's stated in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September 2013 that the company should be ready to begin selling advertising by September 2014 as a way to generate business from a popular entity that had not yet created profit for its parent company.

In June 2014, Instagram Stories announced the rollout of ads in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, with ads starting to roll out that autumn.

In March 2015, Instagram Stories announced it would implement "carousel ads, " allowing advertisers to display multiple images with options for linking to additional content.

Instagram Stories launched carousel image ads in October 2015, and video carousel ads in March 2016.

In May 2016, Instagram Stories launched new tools for business accounts, including business profiles, analytics and the ability to promote posts as ads.

The new analytics page, known as Instagram Stories Insights, allowed business accounts to view top posts, reach, impressions, engagement and demographic data.

We will start to downrank content in feed and Instagram Stories that has been rated false by third-party fact-checkers.

In June 2021, Instagram Stories launched a native affiliate marketing tool creators can use to earn commissions based on sales.

Instagram Stories has developed and released three stand-alone apps with specialized functionality.

Instagram Stories are more authentic than typical photos posted as posts because users know that in 24 hours their Instagram Stories will disappear if they don't add them as highlighted .

Instagram Stories said the algorithm was designed so that users would see more of the photos by users that they liked, but there was significant negative feedback, with many users asking their followers to turn on post notifications in order to make sure they see updates.

Instagram Stories wrote a tweet to users upset at the prospect of the change, but did not back down, nor provide a way to change it back, which they re-affirmed in 2020.

Instagram Stories later clarified the company would introduce two modes: a classic chronological feed and a version of it that would let users pick "favorite" users whose posts would be shown at the top in chronological order while other posts would be mixed in below.

Since 2017, Instagram Stories has employed the ability to reduce the prominence of accounts it believes may be generating non-genuine engagement and spam, preventing posts from appearing in search results and in the app's Explore section.

Instagram Stories caused the userbase to fall into outrage with the December 2018 update.

In November 2020, Instagram Stories replaced the activity feed tab with a new "Shop" tab, moving the activity feed to the top.

Also in 2020, Instagram Stories rolled out a feature titled "suggested posts", which adds posts from accounts Instagram Stories thinks a user would like to such user's feed.

Instagram Stories will put suggested posts ahead of posts from people that the user is following in the Instagram feed, citing positive reception as the reason for this change.

Related searches

What's more, more frequent Instagram Stories use has negative associations for people who follow more strangers, but positive associations for people who follow fewer strangers, with social comparison and depressive symptoms.

Facebook has known for years that its Instagram Stories app is harmful to a number of teenagers, according to research seen by The Wall Street Journal, but the company concealed the knowledge from lawmakers.

Internal Facebook presentations seen by the Journal in 2021 show that Instagram Stories is toxic to a sizable percentage of its users, particularly teenage girls.

Instagram Stories stated it was looking into concerns raised by the regulators and parents.

Multiple studies confirmed that Instagram Stories usage is associated with body surveillance and body self-image.

Comments related to appearance on Instagram Stories are leading to higher dissatisfactions with one's body.

Research shows that Instagram Stories browsing predicts social comparison, which generates FOMO, and FOMO can ultimately lead to depression.

Girls with an Instagram Stories account differed from girls without an account in terms of skipping meals.

Instagram Stories is one of the most popular social media channels for sharenting.

Instagram Stories has published content to help users in need to get support.

Instagram Stories-based activism has been criticized and dismissed for being performative, reductionist, and overly focused on aesthetics.

Instagram Stories marketing is an effective way to advertise a product, given that a picture is said to speak a thousand words.

Recently Instagram Stories has come up with an option for users to apply for a verified account badge; however, this does not guarantee every user who applies will get the verified blue tick.

In contrast, the level of agreement expressed in creating Instagram Stories posts was lower, which demonstrates that Instagram Stories's emphasis on visual communication is widely accepted by young people in social communication.

Instagram Stories was the runner-up for "Best Mobile App" at the 2010 TechCrunch Crunchies in January 2011.

Instagram Stories won "Best Locally Made App" in the SF Weekly Web Awards in September 2011.

In 2019, Instagram Stories began to test the hiding of like counts for posts made by its users, with the feature later made available to everyone.

In June 2017, Instagram Stories announced that it would automatically attempt to filter offensive, harassing, and "spammy" comments by default.

Instagram Stories said in a statement that it had "fixed the bug swiftly" and was running an investigation.

On December 20, Instagram Stories announced that the advertising section of the policy would be reverted to its original October 2010 version.

Related searches

Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu has given public talks explaining that Facebook's 2012 purchase of Instagram Stories was a felony.

In May 2021, The Washington Post published a report detailing a "black market" of unlicensed employment agents luring migrant workers from Africa and Asia into indentured servitude as maids in Persian Gulf countries, and using Instagram Stories posts containing their personal information to market them.

Instagram Stories deleted 200 accounts that had been reported by the Post, and a spokesperson stated that Instagram Stories took this activity "extremely seriously", disabled 200 accounts found by the Post to be engaging in these activities, and was continuing to work on systems to automatically detect and disable accounts engaging in human exploitation.

In July 2022, Instagram Stories announced a set of updates which immediately received widespread backlash from its userbase.

Instagram Stories has been the subject of criticism due to users publishing images of drugs they are selling on the platform.

Instagram Stories has a clear set of rules about what is and isn't allowed on the site.

People can't buy things on Instagram Stories, we are simply a place where people share photos and videos.

In October 2013, Instagram Stories deleted the account of Canadian photographer Petra Collins after she posted a photo of herself in which a very small area of pubic hair was visible above the top of her bikini bottom.

Instagram Stories has been blocked by China following the 2014 Hong Kong protests as many confrontations with police and incidents occurring during the protests were recorded and photographed.

In July 2021, Instagram Stories temporarily censored videos with the phrase "death to Khamenei".

Instagram Stories was the fourth most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.