Go update your Instagram app right now to check out the new feature that was just rolled out – Instagram Stories!
If you think that the feature looks a lot like Snapchat, there’s a good reason. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom is giving credit to Snapchat for the new feature, which allows you to share moments to your profile and have them disappear after 24 hours. There will be a bar at the top of your news feed showing you all the stories from people you follow. You are able to send a private comment on a story to your friend, but there are no public comments or likes for stories.
“They deserve all the credit,” Kevin told TechCrunch. “When you are an innovator, that’s awesome. Just like Instagram deserves all the credit for bringing filters to the forefront. This isn’t about who invented something. This is about a format, and how you take it to a network and put your own spin on it. Facebook invented feed, LinkedIn took on feed, Twitter took on feed, Instagram took on feed, and they all feel very different now and they serve very different purposes. But no one looks down at someone for adopting something that is so obviously great for presenting a certain type of information.”
“And I think what you see is that every company looks around and adopts the best of the best formats or state-of-the-art technology. Snapchat adopted face filters that existed elsewhere first, right? And slideshows existed in other places, too. Flipagram was doing it for a while. So I think that’s the interesting part of the Valley. You can’t just recreate another product. But you can say ‘what’s really awesome about a format? And does it apply to our network?’” Kevin added. “Don’t you think that Snapchat’s done a really awesome job? And Facebook’s done a great job. And Instagram’s done a great job. I think all of these companies have done a great job. Some people invent stuff. We’ve invented things.”
See screenshots of the new feature in the gallery!
A meme is going viral on Instagram informing users to turn on notifications for their favorite people to follow in order to ensure they see their posts once the timeline change happens.
As you may have heard, the social media app will be reordering your timeline to present content in order of how it thinks you will find posts interesting, rather than place everything in a chronological order as before.
The meme is inaccurate though as all posts will still be there for you to see, they’ll just be in a different order, according to BuzzFeed. If you turn on notifications for every person you follow, you’ll get a push notification to your phone every time someone posts, but it won’t make your timeline change to chronological order. So prepare for your phone to start blowing up with notifications if you follow suit!
Lots of celebs have joined the movement to tell their fans to turn on notifications, including Ashley Tisdale, Cameron Dallas, Carlos PenaVega, Jake Miller, and many more. See their posts below.
Click inside to see what lots of other celebs are saying about Instagram… More Here! »
If you count on looking at your Instagram timeline based on the order that things are posted, you’re out of luck as the company just announced a big change to your timeline.
In the near future, an algorithm will be used to reorder the timeline based on content that you are most interested in as on average, people miss 70 percent of their feeds. The new change is to ensure you see the content you are definitely going to want to see.
“The order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting and the timeliness of the post. As we begin, we’re focusing on optimizing the order – all the posts will still be there, just in a different order,” the company announced in a blog post.
“If your favorite musician shares a video from last night’s concert, it will be waiting for you when you wake up, no matter how many accounts you follow or what time zone you live in. And when your best friend posts a photo of her new puppy, you won’t miss it,” Instagram’s reps added. “We’re going to take time to get this right and listen to your feedback along the way. You’ll see this new experience in the coming months.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK of this change to the Instagram timeline?
It’s official – Kendall Jenner had the pic with the most “likes” on Instagram for 2015!
The 20-year-old model and reality star received 3.2 million likes on her famous heart-shaped hair pic.
Also making the top 10 were a Selena Gomez selfie, a professional photo of Beyonce and Bly Ivy, Kylie Jenner holding up her diploma, and Taylor Swift getting a piggyback from boyfriend Calvin Harris.
In fact, Taylor went up 73% over this past year and now boasts a whopping 56.8 million followers on the photo-sharing app.
10+ pics inside of the “most liked” Instagram photos of 2015… More Here! »
Big changes were made to Instagram‘s database this week and if you go look at your follower account right now, you’ll notice that you have lost quite a few followers!
The social media company has deleted millions of accounts that were either spam, inactive, or didn’t follow company guidelines. This means some of your favorite celebrities like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande have lost a ton of followers so we decided to recap who was affected the most by the big purge.
Here is Instagram’s official statement: “We’re in the process of fixing an issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists. We want to maintain the best possible experience on Instagram, so we do our best to remove spam, fake accounts and other people and posts that don’t follow our Community Guidelines. As we remove these accounts, some people may notice a decrease in their follower/following counts.”
Click inside to see the top ten celebrities who lost the most followers… More Here! »
