Instagram is launching Direct, a standalone, messaging-focused app. The service essentially takes the main Instagram app's messaging features and packs them into a separate experience, which will ...

After successfully cloning Snapchat Stories, Instagram is looking to one-up its competitor in chat with a reimagining of its sleeping giant of a private messaging feature, Instagram Direct ...

Instagram on Thursday announced a direct messaging service that lets users share photos and videos with individual users. The company’s co-founder Kevin Systrom unveiled the new feature at an ...

But now, the company has announced Instagram Direct: a way for users to share a snapshot with only a select few anointed friends. With the new system, users can share a photo or video with up to ...

Though Instagram's Stories is already more popular than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won't stop introducing more ways to share them. In May, it introduced location and hashtag Stories so ...

Instagram says it’s cracking down on harassment in direct messages and will permanently ban accounts that use direct messages to harass other users.