SF News Instagram Rolls Out Higher Resolution Photos Of Your Friends' Perfect Lives A photo posted by Lourdes Villagomez (@lourdes_villagomez) on Apr 17, 2015 at 1:48pm PDT The better to see your friends' perfect meals, vacations, and pets, photo sharing service Instagram is in
SF News Instagram And Tinder Hook Up For Seamless Stalking Instagram and Tinder are natural bedfellows. First, Tinder already integrates with Facebook, which owns Instagram, so basically it's all in the same incestuous family. And second, with the right degree of determination and
misc Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, Others Are Inadvertently Leaking Their Exact Locations on Instagram Many Instagram users may not realize they are making their exact whereabouts public whenever they post pictures with the photo-sharing app .Some people who do not realize this are famous. After seeing Fusion’
Arts & Entertainment The Growth Of Mr. Incredibeard, Instagram Facial Hair Sculptor Though perhaps it dates back to Monty Python, "Lumbersexuality" — the media moniker for recent trends in male style like pronounced facial hair — has existed since at least 2012. The evidence is Mr. Incredibeard,
SF News $35 Billion Instagram Valuation Overtakes Twitter, Approaches Uber $35 billion. That's how much Citigroup says the photo-sharing network Instagram is now worth, according to the New York Times. Facebook owns the company, which it purchased two years ago for $1 billion
Arts & Entertainment Modern Family Star Expresses Public Contempt At SF Giants Fan The strongest proof that Kansas City Royals fans are scared shitless over the prospect of facing the SF Giants in Game 1 of the World Series tonight: now they've sent their (solitary?) celebrity
Arts & Entertainment Are You Hyperlapsing Yet? As you probably already know, yesterday morning Instagram released the Hyperlapse app (iOS only, sorry, Android and Windows folks), which, they say "shoots polished time lapse videos that were previously impossible without bulky
SF News Robin Williams' 25-Year-Old Daughter Driven Off Twitter And Instagram Due To Abuse [Updated] If this widely-publicized story about what happened to Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, isn't enough to make Twitter change its weak harassment policy, we're not sure what will. After tweeting a link to
Arts & Entertainment New 'Instagram Direct' Lets You Choose Who Views Your Photos A new way to spend more time on your phone while enjoying time out with a loved one. Instagram has just introduced Instagram Direct, which will allow users a little more control on
SF News Four Auto Burglars Busted Thanks To Instagram Photo Featuring $120 In Hamburgers Cops busted a minor auto burglary outfit in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin, California last weekend after the four suspects posted an Instagram photo bragging about the $120 worth of Carl's Jr. they
SF News Instagram Blocks Drug Search Terms To Avoid Becoming Another Silk Road Did you know that Instagram is being widely used as an open-air drug market? It is. Vice just covered the story of the vast Instagram trade of lean a.k.a sizzurp a.
SF News Instagram Now Doubles As A Sepia-Toned Gun Marketplace Although also useful for documenting cute dogs and morning runs, gun dealers have found a legal loophole that allows them to use Instagram to hock illegal weapons through the photo sharing app. According
SF News People Are Commemorating The Wrong Half Of The Bay Bridge Because it's 2013, and because of Instagram and Facebook and the rest, everyone feels it necessary to chime in on every big event, from Miley Cyrus to sarin in Syria, as if they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kanye West Eats Pancakes At Park Tavern, Tickles Crowd At Smuggler's Cove In empty-calorie celebrity news, noted father/crooner Kanye West was spotted gallivanting about town over the weekend. Was he here for the annual Living Sober conference? We should say not! But while he
SF News Get Ready To Record Your Life In 15-Second Snippets: Facebook Announces Video For Instagram This morning at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took a moment to discuss the heart of Instagram before introducing a video tool for sharing your life in "beautiful" 15-second
SF News Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Is A Mix Of Song Lyrics, Chechen Pride And Boring Teen Stuff During this morning's manhunt in Boston, several sources have identified the Twitter account @J_Tsar as belonging to 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. A cached profile photo (now replaced with picture of a
SF News Hope For Youngsters Renewed As Teens Grow Weary Of Facebook There might be a chance for today's overly connected, sext-fiending youngsters yet: teenagers are not that in to Facebook anymore. Facebook's annual report to investors and one tech CEO with a 15-year-old sister,
SF News Instagram Asks Federal Court To Toss Out Lawsuit According to Instagram, the class action lawsuit filed against the photo sharing service after they released plans to tweak their terms of service last December has no merit. Plaintiff for the class action
SF News Instagram Hit With First Class Action Lawsuit In the wake of Instagram's TOS policy change — which prompted loads of arguably unnecessary and affected handwringing — the photo filter/sharing social media company has been hit with its first civil lawsuit. San
SF News 'Wired' Writer Explains Why He Quit Instagram When we last caught up with Wired scribe Mat Honan, he was going through Douglas Sirk-ian dramatic hell after getting hacked. Now he's quitting Instagram. Why? Well, in a response to the company's
SF News BREAKING: Instagram Withdraws Policy Change Less than 24 hours after announcing a controversial policy change, Instagram has now withdrawn the policy change. Which is to say, they will not put users' photos in ads. Instagram hastily released the
Arts & Entertainment Filter Kerfuffle: Flickr App Quietly Gains Support As Instagram Looks Increasingly Greedy Although Instagram may have riled nearly 100% of their users by changing their terms of service late Monday, and claiming the right to use your photos and photos of you in any advertisement
Arts & Entertainment Starting January 16th, Instagram Can Use Your Photos In Ads [Update] Yesterday Instagram shared an unfiltered privacy policy update with current users, which basically says starting on January 16th they can now use any photo on anyone's Instagram account for any advertisement they want.
Arts & Entertainment Behold, The First Ever Music Video Done Entirely On Instagram We are, quite suddenly and without warning, raging Instagram fans. (If the mood should strike, follow your SFist editor here or SFist's nascent account here.) As far as les médias sociaux goes, it's
SF News Instagram Deal Could Lose $273 Million Thanks To Facebook's Plummeting Stock The $1 billion price Facebook agreed to shell out for Instagram back in April might turn out to be more than 25% lighter by the time the deal finally goes through. That deal
