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Instagram “smart” feed and how to outwit it
Every day hundreds thousands of accounts generates millions of publications on Instagram. Sometimes relevant content is very difficult to find, even more difficult when you follow more than a hundred accounts. But thanks to algorithms, those days are over.
5 basic rules of a successful Instagram account
Well, you have created your Instagram account. What’s next? Convert all your content to pictures of goods and services? Flood your page with memes and funny videos and mix them up with posts which help you sell? Comment posts of your competitors’ followers?
Exemplary Instagram account: Nike’s secret of success and Mastercard’s leftover pie
SMM specialists are used to regard famous brands as examples of how to manage an Instagram account. It’s like “act as Nike or Mastercard and you will make a success”. Let’s figure out how Instagram accounts of big companies really function and which of them look really successful (and which of them — not).
Where to find free images
In our previous article we told you that any image on the internet is subject to copyright and property rights. Copyright belongs to the author, it means that it is obligatory to indicate who made the image you are going to post. Property rights determine if you can use someone else’s picture and how much you need to pay for it.
How Instagram photography's authorship works
Instagram users often speak of photographic copyright. They usually argue on someone having breached anyone else’s rights, stolen or illegally published something or misappropriated the authorship. We have figured out how photographic copyright works on Instagram and how to publish pictures without any risk of their deletion or being sued.
Horrible Passengers
American stewardess Shawn Kathleen owned an account in which she showed the disgusting habits of airline passengers. In the pictures posted at @passengershaming she shows passengers stretching their legs by placing their feet on the headrests of passengers seated in front of them, secretly watching porn, engaging in acrobatic yoga in the aisle, littering and even having sex.
Instagram Archive
In May, 2017 Instagram announced a new feature called Archive. Archive is an Instagram virtual folder to which you can move your photos. The moved photos become unavailable to your followers but will be saved.
The Real San Francisco
An American photographer Burton Rast has finished his Shapes of San-Francisco 100-day photo project. Every day Burton made photos of a typical building focusing on its shape. He used iPhone for making all the photos and Lightroom mobile app for processing them.
Hacker attacks via Instagram
Common problems on Instagram include spam comments or inappropriate private messages. However, there are much more dangerous things on the social network lurking below the surface.
