Last year, a friend began inviting me on her birding adventures. Over time, I grew to love it enough to bird on my own. To share my birding adventures, I made an Instagram account, @birdingwhileblack. I choose that name because I didn’t know any stories of racial violence against Black birders. But it was only […]
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In 2016, Instagram decided to let algorithms control your feed in order to show you the moments they believed you would care about the most. Since then, everyone has been wishing Instagram would stop meddling with algorithms and bring (chronological) order back to their feeds. That won’t happen anytime soon, but Instagram has created a […]
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For those that “like” tweets to bookmark them or use IFTTT recipes to save tweets for later, you might not need those hacks anymore. Twitter has added a dedicated bookmark feature to save and revisit your favorite tweets.
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Last year, Instagram’s mobile site did nothing more than allow for basic interactions. You could peruse your feed, like photos, and leave comments, but there wasn’t a way to post pictures. Today, you can not only post pictures to Instagram from your browser, but create new Stories and save posts. Is the future of Instagram’s […]
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Last year, Twitter stopped counting media attachments and usernames towards its 140 character limit to make more room to tweet. If that wasn’t enough, Twitter is now doubling their character limit and adding a threads button that makes it all too easy to make tweetstorms. Are you ready for longer tweets and more threads?
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Instagram is finally making use of their mobile site, including adding the ability to upload pictures from your phone’s browser.
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