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There are reports around the Web that Instagram has lost 25% around of its daily active users connected to Facebook, according to an app-tracking firm AppData. Some reports are attributing it to the change in Instagram’s terms of service, which had caused a frenzy on the Web. Facebook’s stock also is down more than 2% today, Continue Reading →

Because it’s the holidays and people will sue anything and everything is horrible, a California Instagram user has filed a class action lawsuit over that terms of service kerfuffle last week. Needless to say, this is dumb. While Instagram likely overreached by claiming it could receive compensation by selling your photos for companies who may Continue Reading →

Instagram messed up big time last week when it freaked everyone out with changes to its privacy policy related to licensing user photos for advertisements. After days of backlash, Instagram reverted back to its old terms of service. While the damage has already been done, Instagram is hoping a new update to its iOS and Continue Reading →

Following the controversy over recently-unveiled changes to its terms of service, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom just announced via blog post that the advertising-related section of the TOS has reverted to “the original version that has been in effect since we launched the service in October 2010.” The Facebook-owned photo service had already hinted that this Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer Chats with Richard Quest About Instagram on CNNi. Continue Reading →

If you’re the dramatic, over eager type who burns bridges for a living (or if you’re just sick of all the bullcrap on the Internet), you can delete your Instagram account with hardly any fuss. Unlike other social networks that add hurdles and boulders and cliffs and a jazillion questions to stop you from deleting Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121219_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After last week’s rumors that we might soon see advertisements in our Instagram feeds, Facebook’s real plan for monetization has a lot more people up in arms. Instagram added a line to their Terms of Service, which states that “a business may pay Instagram permission to display Continue Reading →

Instagram responded to user outcry Tuesday over the company’s updated terms of service, clarifying that it does not intend to sell a user’s photos and that users still retain all rights to their content, in an update to the terms of service originally released by the company on Monday morning. The blog post said that Continue Reading →

“You agree that a business may pay Instagram to display your photos in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions without any compensation to you.” That sentence was added to Instagram’s terms of service yesterday, sparking widespread outrage — the most panicked analysis claims Instagram just gave itself permission to sell everyone’s photos at Continue Reading →

On Monday, Instagram said that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry. The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users Continue Reading →