An Instagram app that is 2MB and saves data for Africans? Facebook says ‘Yes’ A week ago, Facebook launched Instagram Lite in 170 countries, to give people low-cost access to “daily doses of connection and entertainment.” The image in their announcement features a woman with a hoe on her back and a man donning a […]
In a bid to improve safety on its platform, Instagram plans to prevent the exchange of DMs between adults and under-18 teens who don’t follow each other. Instagram will enforce this by improving its ability to identify a user’s age. The plan is to develop “new artificial intelligence and machine learning technology” to detect age […]
Seated in the living room of a multi-storey Lagos duplex, I watch my host descend a flight of wood-panelled stairs. He is wearing flip flops and doesn’t have his signature lip gloss on. A white long sleeve sweatshirt paired with tight grey shorts expresses his casual mood this Sunday morning. Carefree and cheerful, as you […]
Flora* met Dan* mid last year on Instagram and they both kicked it off responding to each other’s stories and sending occasional chats. A three-week workshop, followed by an internship at his organisation in June last year was the first time they would meet physically. While a relationship has yet to blossom and there has […]
Grace Osagie doesn’t know when she will post new stock on her Instagram business pages. “I’ve not been able to get goods out of China,” the Lagos-Nigeria based online fashion retailer tells me. As you should know if you have not been under a rock, Covid-19 is on a rampage. Popularly known as coronavirus, the […]
“Snapchat will have to reinvent itself or die a fast, painful death.”
