Author: Shivam

by Shivam

How Coronavirus is Affecting Travel Bloggers on Instagram?

covid-19 effect on travel blogger

With over 664,241 confirmed cases and 30,894 deaths since the outbreak, Coronavirus has utterly destabilized every possible aspect of human life that once occurred normally.

Notwithstanding the fact that the health authorities are excellently persisting to fight, COVID-19 is a step further.

With the number of cases increasing each day (even each minute to be more precise), the economy has gone into a loop of recession.

While there were things like sanitizers and face masks that noticed a ridiculous spike in sales, a majority of small scale businesses incurred a severe loss.

CNBC reported in one of its recent articles- “There was a hike of 255% in the sales of sanitizers in the UK, while the liquid soaps and house cleaners saw an increase of 7 to 10% respectively.”

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Instagram is All Set to Kill your Boredom during Quarantine!!!

stay home sticker

Have you been bored in the last few days?

I bet you must be!

Not only did Coronavirus killed thousands of people around the world and destructed the world’s economy in ashes, but it also confined people to stay at home aka “Quarantine”.

Be it in the United States…

India…

China…

Italy, or any other part of the world.

There has been a constant fear and panic in the air about this current deteriorating situation.

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Instagram is Testing a Feature like Telegram’s ‘Secret Chat’!!!

Instagram Secret Chat Feature...

Have you ever used Telegram?

It’s an amazing app!

Be it in terms of privacy, or user interface, Telegram has always been my first choice among all messaging apps no matter what.

And it may be different for you, of course.

Not everyone is same.

And I completely understand that.

Moreover, I am not here to praise the app’s interface or its amazing features, neither do I force you to join the bandwagon of 100 million Telegram users.

It’s 2020!!!

The apps are continuously evolving and cloning each other’s features so as to shift the user base of other networks on their own platform.

And it’s nothing new, right?

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Instagram Now Lets YOU See ‘Shared Media’ in DMs!

Although Instagram has been scaling up its features and functionality every single day to improve its social platform, messaging apps like Messenger (with 1.3 billion users) and Whatsapp (with 2.0 billion users) always had an upper hand over Instagram DMs right from the get-go.

User Statistics of WhatsApp and Messenger- via Messenger People!

According to a stat via Business Insider, almost 25% of Instagram users use Instagram direct every single day.

With more than a billion users on its platform globally, the stats confirm the vacuum that the company needs to fill in order to even the number of users on other messaging platforms.

And it has been improving every single day!

Fact!!!

Instagram Direct is getting tremendously better with time.

From its oldest unique feature of unsending sent messages to the newly rolled out muting mentions, video calls, etc. Instagram has always brought new attributes so as to shift users from other messaging platforms to Instagram Direct.

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Instagram’s Take to Limit Coronavirus Hoaxes!

Instagram Limits Coronavirus Hoaxes!

Following the recent outbreak of coronavirus throughout the globe, there has been a constant range of misinformation airing on all social platforms.

That being said, Instagram is no different!

Instagram’s initial step turned out to be in the direction of removing ‘known harmful misinformation related to COVID-19‘ that some mischievous people were spreading on the platform.

As a result…

The Instagram app started connecting users to credible sources by highlighting links to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other local health authorities following one searches for hashtags such as #coronavirus, COVID-19, etc. in the search bar.

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Instagram testing Map Sticker for Instagram Stories!

The moment one thinks the Instagram platform couldn’t be better, the company comes up with yet another feature to ultimately ease the overall functionality and interface of the main app.

Jane Manchung Wong, a young girl (also a reverse engineer) from Hong-Kong who tests the unreleased features of the app recently publicized on her Twitter account that Instagram is ‘testing a story feature that would display user location on the world map’.

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Social Captain Leaked Thousands of Usernames and Passwords!

As soon as one sets off their journey on the Instagram platform, getting more and more followers is the first thing they often run after.

Following the hiding of like counts on Instagram posts, a user’s followers count has become a prominent aspect for influencers to show their worth to the advertising companies.

Engagements and other insight also play a vital role, but it is the number of Instagram followers that comes into consideration whenever a company wants to approach an influencer or celebrity.

And when it comes to “Instagram Followers”…

Some resort to apps, while the rest try out paid services.

However…

Something that recently happened with the users of ‘Social Captain’ aired a layer of tension among Instagram users who opt-in for the services.

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Instagram’s IGTV Button Disappears!

Testing happens to be a crucial part of every business!

Juicing down the end products of a certain experiment, initial testing has turned out as a go-to procedure to measure what would actually work out.

Hence…it ultimately saves loads of time and money that could have gone down the drain!

And frankly speaking, Instagram is no different!

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