A contributor writing for Entrepreneur, affiliated with Fix Your Search, argues that small businesses often make the mistake of assigning social media duties to whoever seems comfortable online rather than someone trained in strategy. The piece outlines seven reasons why training a social media team—covering platform knowledge, consistent execution, and understanding what drives engagement—is essential for organic growth. It emphasizes that organic social media can build trust and brand loyalty without ad spend, but only when run strategically.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-06
Two weeks after the iPhone Duo's launch, Apple announced that more than 100,000 App Store apps have been built or optimized for the foldable device. VP Susan Prescott said thousands of optimized apps are being added daily and praised developers' quick adoption of the new form factor.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-06
No Kings Coalition says Meta would not commit to safeguards against automated suspensions of its Instagram account during the midterm elections, after Meta apologized for a four-hour outage of the account caused by its use of a Claude AI tool. Meta offered a technical briefing instead of the leadership meeting the group wanted, and at an October 30 meeting told the coalition it has no plans to change the enforcement policies behind the suspension.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-03
Abigail Morris left a decade-long corporate tech career after being laid off in late 2024, turning her side interior design business, started in 2022 and built via Instagram, into a full-time venture. Her Chicago-based firm, Abigail Morris Interiors, specializes in historic properties and earned about $48,000 in take-home pay its first year, with 2025 revenue projected at $168,000 and take-home pay expected to reach $100,000 in 2026.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-02
Instagram offers a repost tool that lets users share another account's public post or reel with their own followers, with the content appearing in a dedicated repost tab on their profile. Reposts remain credited to the original creator and persist beyond 24 hours, unlike Stories, but can only be made with the original poster's permission. Users can undo a repost by tapping the button again, long-pressing to delete, or using the Reposts section under Your Activity to remove multiple at once.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-31
In a Verge interview, musician and actor Vic Mensa named Apple's Voice Memos app as his most indispensable tool, saying he uses it to capture song ideas, essay thoughts, and notes about his son. He also discussed his heavy use of Instagram, which he credits with building the audience for his podcast The Vic Mensa Show, and voiced skepticism about Meta's smart glasses.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-31
A blog post argues that generative AI threatens product managers as much as developers, since AI-assisted coding makes it cheap for anyone, including developers, to prompt and build features themselves. The author contends that as code becomes cheap, developers gain time to build product intuition, eroding the traditional split between 'tech' and 'product' roles. The piece compares the effect to Instagram's impact on professional photography, where most mid-tier practitioners lost their edge while top talent became more valuable.
lucaskostka.com
· 2026-10-30
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said resentment toward AI is especially strong among creative professionals, driven by concerns over content ownership, unauthorized use in AI training, and job losses. He predicted that this anxiety and backlash will grow more intense over the coming years.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-29
Meta has released Style Sketch, an app that builds a virtual closet from photos users have posted on Instagram or uploaded manually, then suggests outfit combinations and shows them on a model matched to the user's body shape and skin tone. The app, spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, is currently live on iOS and Android in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, and can also generate day-by-day packing plans for trips. Meta has not commented on whether it will expand the app to other markets.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-29
Adam Mosseri said in a podcast interview that public frustration and anger toward AI will intensify over the next few years, especially in creative fields. He said Instagram does not rank AI content differently from other posts but admitted the platform likely doesn't rank AI content 'as well as' non-AI content, and that it is now requiring AI accounts to label themselves.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
On October 17, Meta suspended the Instagram account of the No Kings Coalition for roughly four hours while nearly 3,000 events were underway nationwide to encourage early voting before the November 3 midterms. Meta first attributed the suspension to excessive posting activity, then a day later said its systems had flagged automated software using Claude AI scanning profiles and hashtags at four times normal speed. The account's visibility was restored after about 90 minutes, but organizers could not post again until 5:33pm Eastern.
paulfwalsh.substack.com
· 2026-10-28
Instagram is piloting a new long-form video format called Features, allowing clips up to 90 minutes in landscape orientation, currently limited to a small group of creators in the US and Brazil. Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed on Threads that the company has no monetization system in place yet, only saying it is 'exploring multiple options' to pay creators.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
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