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Instagram is the popular social media platform.
1. How to Hack Instagram: 5 Common Vulnerabilities
There are 5 common methods attackers may use to hack Instagram accounts such as weak passwords, phishing email, OS vulnerabilities & zero day vulnerabilities.
2. 4 Signs Your Instagram Has Been Hacked (and What to Do)
How can you tell if your Instagram has been hacked and what can you do about it? Find out the signs of hacked Instagram accounts and how they affect businesses
3. 10 Best Tools for Instagram Automation
One of the biggest realizations I’ve taken away from my <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/@jrdngonen/made" target="_blank">side projects</a> is that time is a precious commodity. Every moment spent on an activity that doesn’t yield a direct return on investment (ROI) is one that slows down progress. Too much of this can kill your momentum entirely. Social media marketing is a prime example of a channel that’s ROI positive in the long term, but can also take enormous amounts of time and energy before it produces results.
4. Instagram Scraper: How to Scrape Data From Instagram [2023]
Scrape Instagram followers, hashtags, comments, stories, posts, likes, emails, bio and other data with Python/Github.
5. The Best Instagram Mass Story Viewing and Interaction Automation Tools
There is a new breed of Instagram Bots. They are called Instagram Story Mass Viewing and Voting tools and they are likely the future of Instagram growth automation.
6. The Principles Behind How The Instagram Algorithm Works
If you’re reading this, you’re probably wondering why no one is seeing your Instagram posts after the latest algorithm change.
7. 7 Growth Hacks to Get More Followers on Instagram
You recognise the importance of Instagram when it comes to making e-commerce sales, you know Instagram gets more engagement than other social channel, and you regularly post content on your Instagram account, but somehow your company’s Instagram growth just isn’t as impressive as you’d like it to be — and you aren’t sure what to try next.
8. Instagram Is Dead: Here's Why
Santiago explains why Instagram is dead.
9. 10 Helpful Instagram Growth Tools
Photo by RawPixel.com from Pexels.
10. How to Protect Your Instagram Account from Being Hacked
An Overview
11. How To Get Real Instagram Followers In 2020
In 2020 -- what are you doing to grow the number of followers on your Instagram profile?
12. How to Hack "Action Blocked" on Instagram
Every so often, Instagram users encounter this problem — Instagram action block. Here’s your short guide on how to fix and avoid it.
13. An Anthology of Places for Buying Instagram Followers
Instagram is a great social network to use to build your brand. Using the platform, you can increase reach and brand recognition while also building a community of Instagrammers that are interested in what your offer and your content. With billions of monthly active users, it’s all but certain that your target audience uses Instagram.
14. How To Reach Out To Instagram Influencers To Maximize Response Rates
I’ve managed hundreds of influencer marketing campaigns for brands like Depop, Fora Foods, and my own projects, @pinlord & @potteryforall, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that influencer marketing outreach is very different than “traditional” outreach.
15. How To Create An Effective Instagram Story Ad
For most small business owners on Instagram, creating and launching effective Instagram Story Ads still seem overwhelming and out of reach. How to shoot the Ad? How do you launch the Ad? How much money should you spend? How do you know if it’s set up correctly? I had the same questions when I began my Instagram Story Ads journey too but, don’t worry, although they can be a deeply complex science, there are also ways for anyone to create them quickly, simply, cheaply and effectively.
16. How to Auto-Generate Promotional Graphics for your New Shopify Products
This tutorial will teach how to auto-generate promotional graphics each time you add a new product to your Shopify store.
17. How To Find The Most Valuable Instagram Influencers.
I’ve organized and executed thousands of influencer marketing campaigns for brands like Depop and my own small businesses, (@pinlord, @potteryforall, @macramemakers) and from experience, I know that the success of each one depends almost exclusively on the quality of influencers that you work with.
18. From Scratch to SaaS - Building and Launching a SaaS in 10 Days! 🚀
I recently decided to take on a personal #buildinpublic challenge where I set out to build... 🚀
19. What is Mass Story Viewing on Instagram and is it Worth it?
Mass story viewing, or sometimes referred to as mass looking, is a way of Instagram promotion that allows you to attract a new audience by watching their stories in bulk automatically. This promotion method appeared in 2019.
20. How to Build an Instagram Clone App With React Native
It's time you take your web development to the next level. You need to start developing mobile apps and if you ain’t there yet, start building to get started.
21. My Experience After Quitting Social Media Indefinitely
It has been four months since I have been on these social media channels since April 5th. And I am not sure if I will be going back.
22. Expert: Facebook, IG App Can Steal Secrets, and Users Can't Turn It Off!
Felix Krause, a former Google engineer who studies privacy, said in a blog post on the 10th that Facebook and Instagram apps track users' browsing behaviors.
23. Launching an NFT Collection For Free
This article explains how to launch a NFT collection for free. Learn how to promote and launch a NFT collection without having to spend any money.
24. Instagram Reels Performance Benchmarks
Instagram Reels performance benchmarks for 2022 - Get the latest Instagram Reels insights and understand why you should integrate Reels into your strategy!
25. 7 Ways to Secure Your Social Media Accounts
In the world today, cybersecurity attacks happen every 39 seconds. 300,000 new malware is created every day; our beloved Facebook is attacked 100k+ a day; and, just very recently had a massive security breach.
26. Top 6 Linktree Alternatives
The top Linktree alternatives. Study their pros and cons, learn about prices, and figure out which one is the best service for your account.
27. I Think Instagram Scammers Lacked Friends Growing Up
I think Instagram scammers lacked friends growing up. Friendship is the fuel used to drive good-heartedness, as friends gravitate toward good hearts.
28. Instagram wasn’t the best acquisition in the history of tech
Recently, YouTube introduced a new <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/youtube-invests-20-million-in-educational-tutorial-and-diy-videos.html" target="_blank">$20M fund</a> to stimulate creators inside educational categories. And as the discussion about the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/instagram-founders-leave/" target="_blank">founders</a> of Facebook-acquired startups <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17304792/whatsapp-jan-koum-facebook-data-privacy-encryption" target="_blank">leaving</a> the company <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/22/18010030/brendan-iribe-oculus-ceo-leaves-facebook-quit" target="_blank">doesn’t go away</a>, I decided to look once again at two most discussed successful tech acquisitions in the 21st century.
29. Recreating The Instagram Double-Tap with JavaScript ❤️
Today we are going to recreate the famous Instagram double-tap to like effect!
30. I Could Crash Your Instagram Remotely. But I Chose to Report It.
On April 2019, I had the foolish idea of testing Facebook security (and more specifically Instagram security), after I got informed that the company enabled a new setting on their assets (called Whitehat Settings), making easier for researchers to discover new vulnerabilities (pinning was not a problem, I am just a bit lazy sometimes :P).
31. Why You Should Quit Social Media Permanently
Quitting social media permanently will improve your friends relationship, sense of identity, fear of politics, and maximize your attention span.
32. How Instagram's Homepage has Changed Over the Past 10 Years
Instagram or Insta is one of the world’s most used photo and video sharing social networks. It is owned by Facebook and was launched in 2010 on iOS and the Android version was launched two years later along with a trimmed down desktop version. Today, let us see how the homepage of Instagram has evolved over the years.
33. Threads might be Zuck's smartest business move since Instagram
We'll see what that means for the future of humanity, though.
34. 123 Stories To Learn About Instagram
Learn everything you need to know about Instagram via these 123 free HackerNoon stories.
35. How to Find the Best Instagram Hashtags for Business
While Instagram’s algorithm and features have changed a lot over the past few years, one thing that has stayed consistent is that hashtags make your content discoverable, which increases your likelihood of getting more engagement and real followers.
36. 5 Simple Tricks to Organically Grow Your Instagram Following
How to stand out on Instagram.
37. Instagram Growth Hack: Repost Viral, Relatable Tweets
For most <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/instragram" target="_blank">Instagram</a> accounts growth is good — more followers are better than fewer followers. More followers allow you to reach more people which helps you grow your brand, sell more products or achieve any other goal that is depended on reach. This is obvious. The less obvious part is how you go about growing.
38. How to Attract Instagram Followers That Actually Buy From You
Previously I wrote an article about the importance of hashtags, and how you can use them for your business to increase your exposure organically, through this article I'm going to explain how to target the correct audience, which will yield a higher chance of conversion.
39. Should Likes Exist ?
There has been some debate around the importance of public 'likes' on social media platforms. Let's discuss this further with sociological insights.
40. Engineering Instagram Captions: A Structured Prompt for AI Tools
A comprehensive prompt engineering framework that turns AI models into Instagram caption generators. Includes structured inputs, quality gates, and real example
41. From the Genesis of Social Networks and Beyond
Social media networks are an interesting space to watch over the next few years because of Web 3 and the decentralisation of the internet changing things.
42. Your Instagram Guide To Finding and Communicating With Your Target Audience on Instagram
Learn how to find your best target audience on Instagram and get a ton of new customers. Reach new or existing customers on Instagram.
43. Why We Post Less on Social Media but Scroll More
We post less but scroll more. Explore why social media is shifting to "posting zero," how AI algorithms fuel doomscrolling, and if we can reclaim the internet.
44. The Future Of Programming
2019 has been a big year for AR.
45. These People Bought and Scammed Their Way to Get Instagram Verification Checkmarks
A ProPublica investigation determined that Jugenburg’s dubious alter ego was created as part of what appears to be an Instagram account verification scam.
46. How to Activate Disappearing Messages on Instagram
In this post, you will get complete knowledge of how to hide Instagram messages without deleting them.
47. How SoClose For Instagram Provides Revenue for College Athletes
The NCAA recently announced that they will soon be in support of college athletes obtaining brand partnership and sponsorship deals, leaving college athletes all over the nation highly anticipating the 2021-2022 season.
48. Top 5 Instagram Growth Services
Instagram is currently one of the top marketing platforms for brands and businesses. With ever-evolving features for content and in-app shopping, there’s no sign of slowing for the social media giant’s prowess and the need for businesses to establish a firm presence.
49. Pixelated Social Media Icon GIFs: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube and Instagram
Hacker Noon has a new Giphy account. Our first 30 GIFs have created over 2.2 million views. These popular social media icons have been pixelated, greenified and GIF-ed:
50. Live-streaming Unicorn Tango Shows how Focus can be the Difference
From basic filters to complex AR face-changing features, then live-streaming and broadcasting, the evolution of social media has moved at breakneck speed.
51. 7 tips to jazz-up your Instagram account
The stronger your social media presence is, the more powerful you are in the world of marketing. And over time, Instagram is gaining huge popularity, especially among teens. The stats reveal that Instagram images gain 23% more engagement (on average) than their Facebook counterparts!
52. Most Photographed Places in Paris [Facebook Data Analysis]
I analyzed all locations from Instagram and Facebook to find out the most photographed places in Paris. I also managed to get the data about the expensiveness and popularity during the day. Below you can find my report with a bunch of sexy maps and insightful tables. Enjoy 😉
53. Instagram vs. Snapchat: The People's Choice
The popular social media apps; Instagram and Snapchat have been compared side by side by users. Today's piece discusses both apps and helps you make a decision.
54. Khloe Kardashian's Failed Shilling of Febreze [A Deep Dive]
Khloé Kardashian is one of the many famous influencers. Her posts cost a fortune and brands who can afford it count on her excessive fan base to make it worth it.
55. 5 Free Instagram Video Downloader Apps in 2020 & 2021
Inst Download, FastSave, and Saver Reposter are some of the best free Instagram video downloader apps available today.
56. What Does “Link in Bio” Mean and How to Make it More Effective
Always wondered what Link In Bio means? After reading this article, you'll understand what it is, where to find it and how to make your own link more effective.
57. Stitching Together My Thoughts on Threads
On Wednesday, Meta expanded its social media empire, with the Instagram-based text app, Threads. We have some thoughts.
58. Targeting and fake followers: how can we solve the most acute problems of influencer marketing?
Influencer marketing prospects really impress! This market has doubled for the last year and a half and currently amounts to over $2 billion. No wonder! Bloggers give brands access to a huge audience on social networks. Instagram bloggers lead by a wide margin: 69% of marketers promote products with their help. However, there are some obstacles to the growth of this market, because of which small business almost does not risk to use the services of Instagram stars. Their prices are crazy high, guarantees are not always provided, and the selection of relevant influencers is too complicated. Data scientist Arthur Suilin presents problems with the new marketing industry and their solutions. Editor and co-author Egor Perezhogin.
59. Here’s What You Need to Know About How Instagram Works
Adam Mosseri (Instagram CEO) just explained exactly how the Instagram algorithm works, and how they rank content in stories, feed, reels & explore.
60. The Social Proof Paradox
“Proof” is one of those words that starts to seem funny if you look at it too long. Interestingly, our current understanding of the word only really took shape in the late 19th century, and its earliest etymology traces back to the Latin ‘probare’, meaning ‘to test’:
61. Virtual Influencers, like Lil Miquela, Post Real Content Just Like You and Me
The Problematic Fakery Of Lil Miquela Explained: An Exploration Of Virtual Influencers and Realness
62. How You Can Organically Increase Instagram Engagement Rate: 2020 Edition
After Instagram discarded chronological order feed in 2016, brands and creators now constantly need to fight Instagram algorithm to get discovered by other users.
63. Instagram-like Filters In React Native
Instagram has been growing like crazy over the past few years, and one of its key features that fueled that growth was the famous photo filters. By allowing use
64. How to Choose The Right Hashtag
You’ve probably heard this advice time and time again—if you want to get more Instagram engagement, use hashtags.
65. 14 Advanced Techniques for Getting More Instagram Followers
A few days ago, I saw this incredible story on Reddit about a guy called Max who works for a paddleboard startup. This Reddit post was titled “How a paddleboard startup used Unsplash to build brand awareness”.
66. Visually Planning Instagram Feeds for Someone Who is Not a Designer
Actionable tips from pro designers on how to create a smashing Instagram feed.
67. Into the Depths of Wikipedia
Annie Rauwerda is a neurology student by day and an Instagram curator by night. Since the pandemic, Annie has grown her Depths of Wikipedia Instagram page to 37
68. Instagram Users Start Minting and Selling NFTS
Earlier this month, Instagram announced it would allow users to mint and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on its platform.
69. Graphing Likes and Comments on Instagram Posts to See the Trends Visually
Turning Instagram into data: A fun journey to collect and graph likes and comments using network requests and Python for an ego-boosting data analysis.
70. 20 Instagram Growth Hacks You Can Use To 10x Your Audience This Year 📈
Building your Instagram account can be quite intimidating. 😧
71. Your Instagram Privacy Guide for 2022
Of the major social networks, Instagram is definitely one of the most public. It’s also one of the most limited in terms of what can and can’t be shared.
72. 11 Best Instagram Marketing Tips to Build Your Brand and Gain Fans

If you want to have social credibility on Instagram, follow these essential Instagram marketing tips and tricks.
73. How We Made a Simple Avatar Generator for Our Fitness Interviews
My name is Mads Phikamphon and I'm the founder of Bulk Hackers and Madlisten.
74. Beyond Being Shadowbanned: Instagram's Process of Demoting and Deleting Posts
In our experiments, we posted comments designed to violate Instagram policies on spam and bullying to our test accounts to trigger deletions and review requests
75. Twitter Stock Curiously Tanked as People Flock to the App while #InstagramFacebookDown
Is Kanye responsible for Facebook going down?! A Hackernoon watercooler chat.
76. Instagram Tracker – A Must Have Tool for Every Insta Influencer
Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms in no time. It is loved for its vibrant interface, photo filters and a host of unique features. Not only is it a great platform to re-unite with old friends and make new ones but also a perfect place to display your talent and turn your passion into profession.
77. Creating Your Instagram Strategy To Gain Quality Followers
We're sharing 5 approaches to target your intended interest groups so you can gain more quality Instagram followers in 2021.
78. Why Are Virtual Influencers Appealing to Gen Zers?
If the presence of robots in our regular life still sounds like a utopia, the possibility of interacting with them on social media is no more a far-fetched idea.
79. 10 Ideas for Startups Using Stories on Instagram, Facebook, Google...
This week I prepared a bunch of ideas regarding stories. (If you want to get weekly ideas right to your inbox subscribe to chimpideas.)
80. How You Can Drive Traffic To Your Shopify Store
No matter if you’re just starting out with your first store, or are running a multi-million dollar enterprise, every eCommerce entrepreneur has one question that never leaves their mind:
81. Do’s and Don’ts of Using Hashtags to Be the Real Game Changer of Social Media Marketing
Do’s and Don’t’s of Using Hashtags to Be the Real Game Changer of Social Media Marketing.
82. Navigating Lay-Offs in the Tech Industry: My Experience and What It Means
My experience and history of lay-offs
83. 9 Beneficial Tools To Grow Your Social Media in 2020
If you’re looking for the best tools to grow your social media then look no further. In today’s article we’re going to delve into how you can find the tools that can help you grow your social media presence with the least amount of work possible (we like to be efficient).
84. Upcoming Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn Features: Unrelease Updates with Nima - Vol. 3
The unreleased updates of famous apps like Twitter and Instagram - 3rd Issue
85. The Facebook Outage Proved a Need for Greater Decentralization
With the internet become more and more vulnerable to outages and crashes, will the answer to more stability come in the form of more decentralisation?
86. NFT are Officially on Instagram with the NFT Toolkit 📱
Let’s dive into what we can expect from this NFT toolkit and also touch on the rise of web3’s native social media ecosystem
87. Why Australia's Under 16 Social Media Ban Matters
Parents try to sidestep Australia’s social media under-16 bans in order to allow children to continue using these platforms. Why the ban matters
88. Graphing How Many Times People Liked my Posts on Instagram
Visualising knowledge in a (somewhat) readable way, so you can flex on your friends and show your data collection skills.
89. TikTok vs Instagram: Which's Trending More? [Infographic]
New social media platforms spring up daily, but not all of them go viral and get downloaded like crazy; not at least like Instagram did in its heyday. There was a point of time when Instagram reigned supreme in the kingdom of most downloaded apps worldwide and no other app could dare challenge that supremacy.
90. Where Do We Draw the Line in Social Media?
In this slogging thread, the technology channel discussed the pros and cons of Social Media. We covered how it's helpful but can have a negative side effect.
91. 5 Ways to Use the Instagram Conversion Pixel
The most important aspect of advertising via social media is to get results and see your marketing efforts working. Facebook owns Instagram making Instagram one of the leading networks for businesses to advertise on. So it only makes sense that business want to see direct results. Instagram offers a conversion pixel through Facebook to help with this.
92. AI, Automation, And The Lost Art Of Photography
The art of photography has been changed in many ways by technology over recent years, from the proliferation of filtering and photo-editing apps to social media’s constant inundation of digitally enhanced photographs that make us question what it means to be a photographer. Time Magazine has even taken it so far as to declare that photography is dead, claiming its “puberty” was around the time when technology moved
93. Update on Instagram's Year of Autonomy
In response to "Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency" written by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on March 14, 2023, instagram should form a DAO.
94. So You Think You've Been Shadowbanned on Instagram, Huh? How to Check and What to Do
If you think you’ve been shadowbanned on Instagram, here’...