New references in Instagram’s code suggest the company could be developing a paid verification feature following the rollout of a similar system at Twitter under Elon Musk. Recently discovered code ...

Instagram might be considering the possibility of offering paid verification to users, based on code seen by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi. The developer shared screenshots in the app's code ...

Last year following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitte r, the platform introduced a new Paid Subscription for its Blue tick verification system, now Instagram is rumoured to be introducing a similar ...

Instagram verification is pretty darn strict. In order to obtain the blue badge, you need to meet a specific series of requirements—so if Instagram contacts you, informing you you’re eligible for ...

Ad revenues from free apps have taken a significant hit from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency requirement to ask user permission for tracking. Tracking is what makes it possible to serve personalized ...

One of the things Meta (formerly Facebook) does best to keep users on its social media platforms is to copy competitors exhaustively. Meta has done it again, this time targeting Twitter's most ...

Facebook and Instagram are launching a new subscription service that will allow users to pay to become verified. Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — said it would begin testing "Meta ...