This week, Instagram announced that is removing like and video view counts on posts in numerous countries as part of a new trial. At the moment, Instagram users see a running total of people who have liked a post. In the trial, users will see a user name “and others” below posts. This new test is rolling out in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Brazil, after a similar trial ran in Canada earlier this year. While users in these countries will still be able to see these stats on their own posts, they won’t show up on others’.  Social media platforms, in particular Instagram, hav ..read more

Our first Open Days of the year are coming up and we’d like to build up as much conversation online as possible to get visitors and prospective students (as well as our staff & student helpers!) excited about the University and the event. That’s where you come in. What you can do to help Follow us! Firstly, make sure you’re following all our primary social media channels: Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! Use the hashtag! Remember, use the hashtag #SurreyOpenDay if you want to join the conversation on Twitter or Instagram! Tag us in your Instagram stories! If you’re creating an Instagram ..read more

A few years ago it would have been considered a faux pas to post a vertical video to social media. Some of it would have been cut off or distorted and people would’ve probably moaned about it. It was an immediate red flag signalling that you perhaps didn’t know what you were doing. This was natural, given that we’ve always consumed video in this way; cinema, televisions, computer screens. Our eyes sit side by side, making it easier to take in visual content from left to right rather than top to bottom. Well, our anatomies don’t matter anymore, because the rise of smartphones has made vertical ..read more