updated 7/29/2022
Three days after that warning, Instagram pulled the plug — a stunning admission, columnist Linette Lopez writes, that Zuckerberg basically has no idea what he's doing.
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I'll add here latest Instagram marketing information:
Article 1:
Instagram revealed how it decides what content, like posts and stories, to show you. One of the deciding factors is how often you interact with the person who posted. Here are the other three things Instagram uses to feed you content.
Platforms to keep an eye on | |||
The challengers:
These young multi-billion dollar platforms are nipping at the heels of
social giants that grew up in the late 2000s and early 2010s. | |||
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Experiments to watch:
These nascent platforms are testing users’ appetite for new content
formats that haven’t been packaged together in exactly the same way by
the reigning social networks. | |||
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Brief history | |||
2004: Mark Zuckerberg drops out of Harvard and launches Facebook. | |||
2005: Two University of Virginia students launch Reddit with $100,000 from Y Combinator. | |||
2006: Two ex-Google employees launch Twitter as a side project while building a podcasting tool. | |||
2009: WhatsApp is founded. Facebook would later buy it and guide its growth to 2 billion users. | |||
March 2010: Pinterest launches in an early beta mode. | |||
Oct. 2010: Instagram is founded. Facebook would later buy it and guide its growth to 1 billion users. | |||
2011: Snapchat is founded. Facebook would later make an unsuccessful attempt to buy it, followed by a more successful attempt to hamstring its growth by copying its “story” feature. | |||
Of the newer challengers mentioned above, Discord was founded first, in 2015. It wasn’t until 2018 that the app began seeing explosive growth—and, as with TikTok and Clubhouse, Discord was catapulted into further popularity during the pandemic in 2020. | |||
Charting Facebook’s dominance | |||
Facebook
owns four of the world’s most popular social platforms, illustrating
the extent to which the company was able to consolidate its power over
social media over the past decade. | |||
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I have experienced many of my favorite Youtube videos somehow "disappearing".
It could be censorship or the person who uploaded disabled it.
Well, if you really love a video, let's say it's DIY or a topic that interest you, I found a solution. Add the link at this website and it would download to your PC! Voila!
You will be in control and find it anytime you need it:
Updating the below information on Feb 9th 2021, as I don't like having the obligation to download a program in order to download a video.
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As we are at it, I get from my dear girlfriends a lot of fine videos downloaded from instagram. I have no clue how they do it. I found out information at:
The security restrictions in place with iOS mean that downloading Instagram video is not quite as straightforward as on the desktop, but it's still not too tricky – all you need is the right app.
One option is Blaze: Browser & File Manager. Just copy the URL of an Instagram post from the Instagram app an then paste it into Blaze. Next, you need to tap the download button, and then select the option to 'Export video To Camera Roll'. Of course, you can also use any of the web based options mentioned above if you prefer.
There are numerous websites that let you download Instagram videos, and they all work in pretty much the same way. One of the easiest, sleekest and most reliable, however is DreDown.
To make use of the site, you'll first need to visit Instagram and load up the video you're interested in. Copy the URL from the address bar of your web browser, switch to the DreDown page, click the Instagram link at the top, and then paste the URL into the text bot on the DreDown page. Hit the DreDown button, wait while the video is analysed and then download it.
Other web-based services that work in a similar way include DownloadGram and Download Instagram Videos.
note: perhaps this one is good to share via email, as it would be more practical.'
It also supports IGTV downloads. Though for this, you will have to go to each video and download it from there.
Here’s how to use it.
The download may take a little while, around a minute or so.
for additional options here is the source: https://robots.net/how-to-guide/how-to-download-instagram-videos-for-pc-a-beginners-guide/
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May 31, 2021
On May 1st, my girlfriend sent me these two youtube video links. I had saved them as I didn't have time to check them out. Today I tried them and guess what, they don't WORK anymore:
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