Instagram is the next big thing and a way to encourage people to carry a Smart Phone. They just officially announced Web pages for users that others can see, but if you don’t have an Android or iPhone with the Instagram App installed you can’t get an account.
In this issue of Future of Engagement, Murray Newlands talks about the new Instagram Profiles Web pages announcement.
Video Highlights:- Instagram is owned by Facebook
- Instagram has 100 million users
- Not just a smart phone app any more ~ now they have Web pages they call Instagram profiles.
INSTAGRAM PROFILE WEB PAGES
If you use Instagram you will have a Web profile page that will have all the photos you have shared. According to Instagram, photos that are set to private can only be seen on that page by logged in people you have allowed to follow you. If your photos are set to public anyone can see them by going to Instagram.com/yourusername.
While these new pages are probably intended to benefit big brands, small businesses who choose to have smart phones can benefit at least for now. Just remember that Facebook owns them and what happened on Facebook is likely to eventually happen on Instagram.
Originally Facebook allowed businesses to reach their customers and potential clients for free. Recently they took that ability away unless you are willing to pay far more than it is worth. Worse still, if you pay for Facebook shared posts, who sees them may NOT be anyone that matters to you. Read these two posts to find out more:
- Facebook Users Outraged Over New Extortion Model
- Facebook Promoted Posts: Case Studies Suggest Distribution Fraud
If you are going to be spending your time and possibly money using social media to generate business, you need to know what you are doing is effective. At a minimum you need to set up alerts or use a social media monitoring tool to track what is being said online about you, your products and your industry.
Even if you aren’t using social media, these tools can help you protect your online reputation. One of the easier ones to learn is Alerti. They offer a 30 day free social media monitoring trial, but if you use bonus code alertivideo when you sign up with them you can extend that to 90 days.
Go to http://en.alerti.com/ to sign up. Just click on the sign up for a free trial button. No credit card or address is required to sign up. If any of my readers wants to write a guest post about how they use social media monitoring leave a comment in this post or use this contact information.
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I myself use an android phone as well as I am active on instagram. An instagram account is easy to create and get started with. However, this is a fact that only adroid as well as I phone users can create a profile on instagram. Other cellular devices do not support this application. This automatically makes people prefer smartphones.
This issue strikes my head all the time. Only smartphones users like people using an Iphone or Android phone can use and have an account on Instagram. So that means Blackberry is not counted as a smartphone despite of possessing all the features of a smartphone. Isn’t this strange?
The idea of taking a photo, making it look like crap and posting it online, is as stupid as taking a beautiful woman, tattooing art on her body that looks like it was drawn by an 8 year old blind ******, assuring she will never be beautiful again.
Instagram is a new feature in facebook which is fun and it helps in making pictures more creative and innovative in photography. This is a big investment for Facebook to buy this, however, this is beneficial to the users.
Instagram is very useful; hopefully Facebook will develop it more.
Anyone remember that week that Instagram went down? The world flipped out! Haha.
Thanks for this post, found it to be very useful! Great work GM!
Roy
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November 15, 2012 at 5:57 am
Thanks for sharing. It will definitely help me to work with my Android phone. Great work!
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It seems like instagram is just being updated. Many brands were already using instagram to promote the image and connect with a creative audience.
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November 12, 2012 at 11:40 am
Downloaded the Instagram app on my I-phone a while ago. Never use it. Hoping Facebook gives me a reason to use it.
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These pages looks great. I do have an Android phone and I will surely check out Instagram soon. Thanks for this great share.
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That is fascinating, does one suppose Facebook is using Instagram pages to legitimatize and build some cash out of it. i do know with sites like Pinterest Image have become very hip on the net. i feel there’s a decent probability that you just will got wind of store and sell photos yet. creative person ar getting to love this.
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These profile pages look pretty awesome, i was always a fan of Instagram, hope facebook develops it more
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November 10, 2012 at 5:55 am
My fear is that Instagram may eventually suffer what happens to facebook. Facebook is only struggling to keep up with the falling value.
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That is interesting, Do you think Facebook is using Instagram pages to monetize and make some money out of it. I know with sites like Pinterest Image have become very popular on the web. I think there is a good chance that you can set up store and sell photos as well. Photographer are going to love this.
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Web Pages was really the way to go. Let’s wait and watch how FB tries to integrate it into their setup.
Instagram is related to the use of photos and collages
I thought their web profiles looked a lot like Facebook fan pages. It will just be a matter of time before all Facebook pictures get “instagramed” automatically. Mark doesn’t make enough money as is so he will be selling all your pictures, probably the gps data from them as well, to any business that will pay for them. Next will be ads on your phone through instagram for a local business around where you are when you upload a picture.
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Thank you for great information . I am going to try alarti..
Plz inform me whether i can use it in Facebook page.
Thanks.
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I don’t know if it’s worth that much, but I do think facebook buying instagram was a good idea. I’m sure they have big plans for it.
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November 8, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Hmmm I have heard about Instagram, it is a way of taking photos and uploading them, right? The only place I upload pictures to is to Facebook for my friends to see.
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