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Instagram Testing Support for Cross-Posting Images to Threads: Report

Threads — Meta’s microblogging service that competes with X (formerly Twitter) — could add support for cross-posting content from Instagram. According to a report, some accounts have been updated with an option to post an image to Instagram while simultaneously uploading it to Threads — the firm previously tested similar functionality for the Facebook app. The feature is currently being tested with some users and only cross-posting of images is supported at the moment. The company could eventually introduce the feature for all users.

TechCrunch reports that some Instagram users now have an option to cross-post to Threads in the form of a toggle. Users will need to opt in to using the feature, and it is currently unclear whether the toggle will remain enabled for future posts. As the option to cross post is currently in testing, not all users will be able to access the feature — it is yet to be enabled on Gadgets 360 staff members’ accounts.

In its current form, Instagram users who have access to the cross-posting feature can only share images to Threads. Sharing a Reel is currently unsupported, as per the report. This means that you will have to manually upload your vertical videos to Threads, even if the cross-posting option is enabled for your Instagram account.

According to the publication, cross posting an image from Instagram will automatically use the caption as text for the post on Threads. However, users might recall that Threads doesn’t offer support for hashtags with the hash symbol (#) like Instagram, so Threads will reportedly strip away the hashtags in the cross-posted text.

Instagram users can currently cross-post content and Stories to their Facebook accounts by enabling a toggle on their account. When the option to simultaneously share images to Threads is enabled, it is likely to offer the same functionality as the Facebook cross posting tool, remain an opt-in feature. according to the report.

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Instagram Rolls Out Multiple New DM Features to Make Messaging More Convenient

Instagram has rolled out several new features for its Direct Messaging (DM) section which are likely to improve private conversations and make the experience more personalised. The new Instagram DM features include an option to edit messages, chat pinning, read receipts controls, and more. Meta’s newest social media platform Threads has also received new gesture-based controls for its app. Notably, the new features arrived just days after Instagram added a new lock screen widget for iOS that lets users quickly click a picture or shoot a video for Stories.

New DM features on Instagram

The social media platform announced the new features via a blog post, highlighting that private messaging remains one of the main ways users connect daily and these new features are aimed to improve the overall experience.

One of the most notable features is the edit option for messages. Similar to WhatsApp, another Meta-owned platform, Instagram will also allow users to edit a message for up to 15 minutes after it has been sent. To edit a message, users should press and hold the sent message and once the dropdown menu shows up, select edit.

Pinning chats to the top of the inbox is also getting a tweak. Users can now pin up to three chats — either group or individual — for ease of access. To pin a chat, simply swipe left or press and hold on a chat in the inbox screen and select the pin option.

With this update, users will finally get more control over read receipts, which will add to their privacy on the platform. Users can now turn off read receipts for all chats or a few selected ones. The process is simple. To turn it off for all chats, go to Account Settings > Messages and story replies > Show read receipts, and toggle it on or off.

For individual chats, users will need to go to the specific chat where they want to turn off the read receipts. Then, tap on their name, and select Privacy and safety. In the list, find the Read receipts option and toggle it off. The controls work the same way on both Android and iOS.

Additionally, Instagram has also added a way for users to save their favourite stickers and make them show up at the top of the sticker screen. To do this, users simply need to press and hold the preferred sticker and it will automatically be saved. Further, three new themes — Love, Lollipop, and Avatar: The Last Airbender — have also been added.

Threads gets a new feature

According to a report by 9to5Mac, Threads has also received an interesting feature. When using the app and scrolling through the For You tab, users will be able to swipe right to like a post and swipe left to hide it. The feature reportedly only works in this specific environment, and it is not certain whether it will be added to other sections of the app.

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Instagram Spotted Working on AI Message Writing Feature; Threads Tests Post Bookmarks

Instagram has been experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) features ever since Meta AI was launched by its parent company. Now, a new leak has surfaced that claims that the social media platform is working on an AI message-writing feature. It is said to allow users to rewrite, paraphrase, and make stylistic changes to their written messages in Instagram direct messages (DM). Meanwhile, Meta’s newest social media platform Threads has also begun testing a post saving feature that will bookmark posts for viewing later.

Mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi leaked details about this feature on Thursday on X (formerly known as Twitter). He shared a screenshot where typed text that is selected can be seen with the option Write With AI in a chat box. Answering another user’s query on its functionality, Paluzzi said, “It will probably paraphrase your message in different styles, similar to how Google’s Magic Compose works.”

While details about the AI message-writing feature are not known — given that a user has to select and highlight the text for the option to show up — it appears that the AI cannot generate messages on its own within the text field. As such, the feature is more like an AI text editor. Similar existing tools offer features such as rewriting, summarising, increasing the length of the text, changing the tonality and style structure, as well as adding more contextual content to it.

It should be noted that Instagram’s AI can already generate content through a different process. For that, users have to type “@Meta AI” followed by the message in any chat, and the AI will respond to it. Others in the chat will also be able to see the message. Notably, the company claims that the AI can only read the message where it is tagged, and the rest of the texts will remain private. Similarly, it will not be able to respond to any follow-up queries if it is not tagged. At present, Meta AI, which powers Instagram’s AI features, is only available in the US.

Separately, Threads is also testing a new feature. Users will soon be able to bookmark their favourite posts by tapping on the option Save. Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who also overlooks Threads, said in a post that the feature will work similarly to Bookmark on Instagram. There is no announced date for the rollout of this feature, but it is expected to roll out to beta testers and regular users soon.

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Meta to Label AI Generated Images on Facebook Instagram Threads

Meta announced that it will begin labelling artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images on all of its platforms, including Facebook, Threads, and Instagram. The announcement, made on February 6, came just a day after the company’s oversight board highlighted the need to change Meta’s policy on AI-generated content and to focus on preventing the harm it may cause, responding to the complaint involving the US President Joe Biden’s digitally altered video that surfaced online. Meta said that while it does label photorealistic images created by its own AI models, it will now work with other companies to label all AI-generated images shared on its platforms.

In a newsroom post Tuesday, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg underlined the need to label AI-generated content to protect users and stop disinformation, and shared that it has already started working with industry players to develop a solution. He said, “We’ve been working with industry partners to align on common technical standards that signal when a piece of content has been created using AI.” The social media giant also revealed that currently, it can label images from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney, and Shutterstock. It has been labelling images created by Meta’s own AI models as “Imagined with AI”.

To correctly identify AI-generated images, detection tools require a common identifier in all such images. Many firms working with AI have begun adding invisible watermarks and embedding information in the metadata of the images as a way to make it apparent that it was not created or captured by humans. Meta said it was able to detect AI images from the highlighted companies as it follows the industry-approved technical standards.

But there are a few issues with this. First, not every AI image generator uses such tools to make it apparent that the images are not real. Second, Meta has noticed that there are ways to strip out the invisible watermark. For this, the company has revealed that it is working with industry partners to create a unified technology for watermarking that is not easily removable. Last year, Meta’s AI research wing, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), announced that it was developing a watermarking mechanism called Stable Signature that embeds the marker directly into the image generation process. Google’s DeepMind has also released a similar tool called SynthID.

But this just covers the images. AI-generated audio and videos have also become commonplace today. Addressing this, Meta acknowledged that a similar detection technology for audio and video has not been created yet, although development is in the works. Till a way to automatically detect and identify such content emerges, the tech giant has added a feature for users on its platform to disclose when they share AI-generated video or audio. Once disclosed, the platform will add a label to it.

Clegg also highlighted that in the event that people do not disclose such content, and Meta finds out that it was digitally altered or created, it may apply penalties to the user. Further, if the shared content is of high-risk nature and can deceive the public on matters of importance, it might add an even more prominent label to help users gain context.

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Koo Not Competing Against X, Meta’s Threads by Meta; Going After Deeper, Regional Audiences: Co-Founder

Koo is not competing head-on against X (formerly Twitter), or even the recently-launched Threads by Meta, and is instead going after regional audiences with its language-based approach, co-founder of the homegrown platform, Aprameya Radhakrishna, has said. 

Radhakrishna said Koo can be social-media-as-a-service, tailoring itself in compliance with the laws of the country it operates in.

On Meta’s Threads, he said, “Threads saw an opportunity to go into a space where Twitter (now X) was faltering, but what they did wrong was that they replicated their lifestyle network of Instagram. All the creators moved to Threads and actually didn’t know what to do,” Radhakrishna opined.

Radhakrishna told PTI that Koo is “going after a deeper audience which has never heard of Twitter or Threads as platforms…we go after different audiences.” On Koo’s positioning vis-a-vis other platforms, he claimed that the company is not competing against others directly since Koo’s approach is more language-based.

Notably, applications like Koo, widely-seen as Twitter-rival, gained ground a few years back following clarion calls for expanding the ecosystem of homegrown digital platforms.

Radhakrishna also spoke during a panel discussion about how Portuguese is the third largest language base on the platform, and the flow of language on the platform has allowed even the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to have a reach among their regional audiences, at 200-300 likes per post on the app.

“We can be social-media-as-a-service, according to your country, since there are problems of data misuse and interference in local affairs”, he said on Koo’s global plans and making reference to other social media companies. 

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Elon Musk Calls Mark Zuckerberg a ‘Chicken’ After Meta CEO Says ‘Time to Move On’ From Cage Fight

A new twist has emerged in Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s most anticipated cage fight. On Sunday, Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg apparently called off his cage fight with the Twitter owner. In a post on Threads, he said that he was going to “focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously”.

“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” he said in the post. Mark’s post did not go down well with Musk. Taking to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk threw some jabs at his tech rival. Zuck is a chicken,” Musk posted. 

In another post where an X user suggested Zuckerberg was “trying to chicken out” in the fight versus Musk, the latter replied, “He can’t eat at chic fil because that would be cannibalism.”

Replying to another user Musk added, “Can’t wait to bang on his door tomorrow.”

As per Variety, the Meta and X/Twitter CEOs first sparked conversations about a potential MMA-style cage match in a series of back-and-forth messages on their platforms. Musk kicked off the exchange while replying to a June 20 Twitter thread where he wrote, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”

Recently Musk posted that the “Zuck v Musk fight” would be live-streamed via X with all proceeds going to charity. Zuckerberg fired back at Musk, taking a subtle dig at X/Twitter, when he wrote on Threads, “Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?”

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Instagram Testing Group-Tagging Feature via Single Mention on Stories: Report

Instagram may have some new features up its sleeves for its users within the coming days. The social media platform is testing a feature that will let users tag a group of people on Instagram Stories via just a single mention. With the creator economy booming on Instagram at an international level, the platform keeps updating its feature palette to cater to a diverse range of user requirements. As of August, this year, the platform is estimated to have over 2.3 billion active users from around the world.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, disclosed some information about this upcoming feature on his broadcast channel titled ‘IG Updates’. Describing the feature, Mosseri said users would soon be able to add multiple followers to create one group, and instead of having to tag people individually on Stories, they would be able to just tag the group.

Mention notifications, as part of the group tag, will be sent to all the members of the group and they will be able to re-share the post on their Stories as well.

“We’re testing a way to tag a group of people in a Story using a single mention. Once you create a group mention, it can be reused by anyone in the group to automatically tag everyone in any new Stories,” Techlusive quoted Mosseri as saying on his broadcast.

For now, the timeline for the arrival of this feature remains undisclosed. The feature could be rolled out in the US before it reaches other regions, the Techlusive report added.

Last month, the Meta-owned platform rolled out a Twitter-like application called ‘Threads’. Threads, which is integrated with users’ Instagram accounts, quickly racked up 100 million sign-ups, posing a serious threat to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter. Threads has been rolling out new features for its userbase, including a chronological ‘Following’ feed on iOS and Android. Mosseri has also said that a Web version of the platform is in the works.

Meta, in its stride towards adopting Metaverse features on its platforms and services, is allowing Meta avatars of users to be used during video calls on Instagram and Messenger.

The company is also reportedly testing in-app AI chatbots that would give users at least 30 personalities to choose from.

Instagram will turn 13 years old this year in October.

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Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg Comments on Threads About Cage-Fight Against X’s Head Elon Musk

Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads on Monday to post about his ‘cage-fight’ with Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter). 

The development comes as Musk on Sunday said that his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X.

Sharing a screenshot of Musk’s X post on Threads, Zuckerberg said, “Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?” On Musk’s post about preparing for the fight, Zuckerberg replied on Threads, saying “I am ready today. I suggested Aug 26 when he first challenged, but he hasn’t confirmed.” “Not holding my breath”, the Meta top boss added.

The two tech billionaires purportedly agreed to a “cage match” face-off in late June.

Zuckerberg is trained in mixed martial arts (MMA) and was recently promoted to blue belt in the Brazilian self martial art and combat sports jiu-jitsu.

Musk posted on X Monday morning that he would choose the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) format for the fight.

“Am going with @WWE as my fighting style,” the Tesla chief and richest person on the planet, said.

The banter between Musk and Zuckerberg has gained social media attention, especially after Zuckerberg launched Threads, which is seen as a rival to the Musk-owned Twitter (now X).

It all started when Musk, who owns X, responded to a tweet about Meta preparing to release the purported ‘Twitter-killer’ Threads.

He took a dig about the world becoming “exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options” — but then one Twitter user jokingly warned Musk of Zuckerberg’s jiu-jitsu training.

“I love sport and will continue competing with people who train no matter what happens here,” Zuckerberg posted on Threads Monday. In fact, the Meta top boss has been using Threads extensively for sharing updates, ever since the social media giant launched Twitter’s rival last month.

With Musk’s record of tweeting about action prematurely or without following through, it is yet to be seen whether or not the two social media owners actually make it to the ring in Las Vegas.

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Twitter Now ‘X’ on Both Android and iOS Platforms; Tweets Relabeled as ‘Posts’

Twitter was recently rebranded as X by owner Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk claimed that the social media platform reached “new heights” with more than 540 million monthly users as compared to the reported 229 million monthly active users in May 2022. Musk took over the site in November 2022, and has since made several changes including laying off almost 50 percent of the firm’s workforce and appointing Linda Yaccarino as the CEO. This rebrand is the latest among all of Musk’s changes and riptides, as Twitter continues to struggle with its advertisement revenue.

Between talks of the patent rights of the letter X, the mobile application icon for Twitter on both Android and iOS platforms has changed to ‘X’ with an update. Now, the content shared by users, previously known as tweets, are now called posts. The Twitter 10.1.0-beta.1 version now appears on some Android devices at ‘X Beta,’ although the apk file is still called com.twitter.android. Even on Apple’s iOS handsets, the update appears with the new logo but the old name.

X for Android has also changed the “Tweet” option on the bottom right corner of the homepage to “Post,” which suggests that Musk’s idea of rebranding is to do away with all things old and essential of Twitter. Each step is closer to achieving his dreams of building “the Everything App.”

It is likely that Musk’s rebrand train may face a few legal roadblocks. The alphabet or the symbol X is very widely used and it could be a potential legal point of conflict. Case in point, its rival social media platform Facebook-parent Meta Platforms owns a 2019-registered federal trademark registered which covers a blue-and-white letter “X” for fields including software and social media. Even Microsoft has owned an X trademark since 2003 with regard to communications about its Xbox video-game system.

Experts say that the companies are likely to not sue unless they feel threatened that Twitter’s X “encroaches on brand equity they built in the letter.” Notably, even Meta faced legal backlash from investment firm Metacapital and virtual-reality company MetaX when they changed their name from Facebook to Meta and later settled over its infinity-symbol logo.

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