Opinionaided, a free iPhone app we’vereviewed, offers real-time opinions and feedback from users regarding questions posed by fellow users of the app. Fresh offnew fundingand plans to expand its mobile question and answer community to other mobile platforms, including Android, comes information from Opinionaided concerning what they found to be the most popular apps at this year’s SXSW. The group at Opinionaided sent a team to Austin, Texas with the singular goal of using their app to determine which apps were most popular....

Instagram has apologized for a “mistake” that led its algorithm to promote harmful diet content to people with eating disorders. The social network had been automatically recommending terms including “appetite suppressant,” which campaigners feared could lead vulnerable people to relapse. Facebook, which owns Instagram,told the BBCthat the suggestions were triggered by a new search functionality: As part of this new feature, when you tap on the search bar, we’ll suggest topics you may want to search for....

Instagram isadding a new fieldin your profile to display your pronouns if you wish.Until now, you could only ever key them somewhere into your bio, or include them in your display name. The company said that this feature is rolling out for users in a few countries without specifying which ones. If it’s available in your region, you’ll be able to add pronounce by heading toEdit Profile > Pronouns. You can choose up to four pronouns to write in the field....

Brands are investing a lot of time and money in promoting themselves online, and with this many resources put into it, you gotta make sure the results are paying off. Now, among all the social platforms out there, there’s one that rules them all when it comes to engagement, and that’s the almightyInstagram. And because of such a huge interest, the team fromSocialinsider, together withSked Social, conducted anInstagram engagement study, by analyzing 102 million posts, where they compared Instagram’s engagement in 2021 and its values in 2022....

Earlier today, we saw photo-sharing darlingPicPlzrelease someimportant newswith its API. Not to be out-done, Instagram hast just stated, in ablog post, that it is now making its API available to developers. However, until now, users’ data has only been accessible through our iPhone app. A big part of this was by design: the fundamental belief that choosing to focus our efforts on one thing, and doing that one thing well would help us iterate quickly and build what in 4 short months has gained nearly 2 million users....