Business Insider reported on Monday that Meta is offering some creators with more than one million TikTok followers compensation of up to $50,000 per month for exclusive short-for

It’s a strategy that, as annoying as it is, has mostly worked. Inevitably, the features aren’t as good as the original, but that’s not the point. Instagram knows that it only has to make features that are good enough to keep people from wanting to go anywhere else.

Instagram has made changes in recent days that appear to be aimed at attracting TikTok users while the short-video app’s future remains in limbo.

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?

Meta is testing a highly requested pause feature with a small group of users on Instagram Reels. The new feature is the latest sign that Meta is looking to capitalize on TikTok's uncertain future in the U.S. Previously, users have only been able to pause videos on Instagram Reels by tapping and holding on their screen.

Drawing on that same article by The Verge, Instagram head honcho, Adam Mosseri, was quoted as saying: ““The vast majority of what is uploaded to Instagram today is vertical”. And as even slightly savvy Instagram users know, portrait-orientation imagery tends to garner the most engagement – something that’s irked photographers in the past.

With TikTok still absent from app stores, Instagram is offering creators $10,000 to $50,000 per month to exclusively post Reels, according to The Information.

A new report claims that Instagram is offering content creators $50,000 or more to leave TikTok and post on Reels instead.

CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.

As major platforms face mounting scrutiny over content moderation and user privacy, a developer's vision for ethical social media draws support

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The social media influencer, best known as Siyah to her followers, boasted more than 310,000 followers on the platform.