Knowra Instagram Instagram Instagram is a social media service for sharing photos and videos, messaging, and viewing content from accounts users follow. Its features include feeds, Stories, Reels, and direct messages.
Instagram Feed : Instagram’s main stream of posts from followed accounts and recommended sources. It combines followed accounts’ posts with recommendations in a continuously updated stream.
Kevin Systrom : An American entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram and served as its chief executive. Systrom co-created the service and guided its launch and early growth.
Influencer marketing : Marketing that uses creators’ relationships with audiences to promote products or services. Instagram’s visual posts and creator accounts make it a major venue for sponsored promotion.
Influencer : A person whose online audience can shape followers’ opinions, tastes, or purchasing decisions. Instagram helped make audience-building and sponsored creator work mainstream.
TikTok : A social media service centered on creating, sharing, and discovering short-form videos. TikTok foregrounds a video recommendation feed, while Instagram combines video with profiles, photos, and messaging.
Instagram Stories : A feature for sharing photos and videos that normally disappear after 24 hours. Stories offer a temporary format distinct from permanent profile posts.
Mike Krieger : A Brazilian-American software engineer who co-founded Instagram. Krieger built Instagram with Systrom and helped shape its early product.
Social commerce : The buying and selling of products through social media platforms and features. Businesses use Instagram posts, product tags, and messaging to connect discovery with shopping.
Selfie : A photograph a person takes of themselves, usually with a camera or phone. Instagram’s image-sharing culture helped normalize selfies as everyday public communication.
Snapchat : A social media service known for disappearing photos and videos, messaging, and augmented-reality lenses. Snapchat’s ephemeral messaging history contrasts with Instagram’s mix of temporary and persistent publishing.
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