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A hashtag created by a photographer to tag his Instagram images shot with drones, has gone viral. The #fromwhereidrone hashtag has now been used on 10,000 photos and its creator has dedicated an Instagram page and website to it.

Twitter is no longer cropping photos on the desktop version of its service. Larger images can now be displayed without restrictions on users' timelines.

Facebook has shut down its standalone app division, Creative Labs, killing off all its releases in the process. 

Instagram revealed its most popular photos of 2015, with celebs Kendall Jenner and Taylor Swift dominating the list.

Facebook has introduced a new e-commerce feature that allows users to buy concert tickets directly from the social network via events pages. 

Twitter has filed a trademark registration for the word "subtweet," which refers to a tweet directed at another person without mentioning their Twitter name.

France recently held closed-door counter-terrorism talks with Twitter and Facebook. The French government is urging Web giants including Google, Apple, and Microsoft to take action against extremism online.

In a first for the messaging app, Snapchat has taken to live news coverage by broadcasting on-the-scene videos and images of the San Bernardino mass shooting.

One Direction, Selena Gomez, and Justin Bieber were the musicians that dominated Instagram in 2015.

U.S. supporters of ISIS tend to use Twitter more than other social network, a study on radicalization reveals. The report from George Washington University examined 300 social media accounts.

Snapchat, in partnership with (RED) and The Gates Foundation, has released new celebrity-endorsed filters to mark World AIDS Day. 

When it comes to new baby names, Instagram filters are surging in popularity with millennial parents, according to a new survey. The unofficial global list of baby names was published by parenting site BabyCenter.com.

Marvel is releasing a free comic book next year that will compile a selection of its recent variant hip-hop covers. The special-edition covers feature some of the company's biggest new titles and pay homage to iconic hip-hop albums.

Pope Francis was turned into a viral hip-hop meme courtesy of the #PopeBars hashtag on Twitter. An image of the Pope taken in Africa was hijacked by users who posted it alongside funny rap lyrics.

Twitter has created several new emojis in conjunction with the COP21 climate change talks in Paris. The emojis can be activated by using the appropriate hashtags #COP21, @GoCOP21, #ActionDay, and #ClimateChange.

Vine has introduced new features to its video-looping service that allow users to grab audio from other videos to use on their own creations. Aside from the audio remix function, new music discovery tools have also been added.

The new season of TV show The Amazing Race will feature social media celebrities from YouTube, Vine, and Instagram, including Tyler Oakley and Zach King.

A Scottish man has been indicted by the SEC for using fake Twitter accounts to spread false U.S. stock market info, costing shareholders $1.8m.