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GSM Arena
6 days ago
- GSM Arena
Instagram introduces Repost and location sharing
Today Instagram has announced some new features, including Repost, which is basically Twitter's Retweet. You can repost public reels and feed posts, and your reposts will be recommended to your friends and followers in their feeds. Reposts will also be found in a separate tab on your profile so you (or someone else) can always go back and revisit them. Reposts are credited to the original poster. So when your public reels and posts are reposted by someone else, they're recommended to that person's followers, even if those people don't follow you. Thus, you have "a new opportunity to reach more people whenever you create something worth sharing", Instagram says. You can add a note to any repost by typing into the 'thought bubble' that appears on screen once you've hit the repost icon. Next up, a feature that Instagram copied from Snapchat, not Twitter - the Instagram Map. This lets you opt into sharing your last active location with the friends you pick. You can turn it off at any time, and open the map to see content your friends and favorite creators are posting from "cool spots". Instagram bills this as "a new, lightweight way to connect". Location sharing is off by default, and you can choose who you share it with (friends, Close Friends, or only selected friends). You can also choose not to share your location in specific places or with specific people. If you use location sharing, your location is updated when you open the Instagram app or when you return to it if it's been running in the background. If you're a parent with supervision set up for a teen, you can control their location sharing experience - you'll get a notification if they start sharing their location, and decide whether they have access to location sharing on the map as well as see who they're sharing their location with. Regardless of whether you're sharing your location, you can see location-tagged content on the map, including reels, posts, and stories from people you follow, as well as notes from people you mutually follow. All of this is available for 24 hours. You can find the map at the top of your DM inbox. This is currently rolling out in the US, with "more global availability soon". Finally, there's a new Friends tab in Reels, showcasing public content your friends have interacted with or recommendations from Blends you've started. Instagram says this will "help you see which reels the people you care about most are creating and engaging with". Friends started rolling out earlier this year, and is now launching globally. Source
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Instagram's Experimenting With a New Way to Highlight Your Interests
This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. As it officially launches a range of new features designed to help users connect in the app, Instagram's also testing out a new option on this front, in the form of 'Picks,' which would enable users to highlight things that they're interested in via their inbox Notes. As you can see in these example screens, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram's currently in the early stages of experimenting with Picks, which you would be able to access via an icon at the top of your inbox in the app. As Instagram explains in the second image above, Picks would enable you to highlight your interests, in order to 'find overlap with friends who are all about it too.' So, for example, you would be able to search for a topic within the Picks display, and then choose from specific subjects in the list. It could be another way to encourage more connection in the app, which aligns with a core function of Instagram, in bringing people together. Indeed, earlier this year, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri explained that the team is focused on maximizing both creativity and connection, with the latter set to include a range of new features to drive more user engagement. As per Mosseri: 'We're also going to look for more ways to make recommendations and consuming content more interactive and more social, and we're going to be exploring some new ways to connect with your friends on Instagram.' Picks, along with the new friend feed for Reels, the friend map, and re-posts, all align with expanded discovery, and facilitating connection between users via their shared interests. Will that work? I mean, Instagram has seen some success with features like inbox Notes, which provide another means to connect. And with fewer people posting original content, social platforms have become more interest-based, as opposed to expressive, so it makes sense that IG might be able to facilitate more connection around what people are interested in, as opposed to what they share. Meta's also presumably seeing some erosion in its user interest graphs, because with algorithms now showing you a constant stream of content that it thinks you'll like, you no longer need to like and follow in order to dictate such, as the systems are now much better at inferring interest based on your viewing activity. Direct indicators do still play a role, but users are growing more accustomed to automated refinement, which is likely having some impact on Meta's capacity to understand user interests for ad targeting and the like. So maybe, something like Picks works to provide more context, as well as expanded engagement activity. It seems like an interesting experiment either way. I've asked IG for more info on the test and will update this post if/when I get more info. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
CNET
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Instagram May Soon Let You Rerrange Your Grid. What to Know
If you like to keep your Instagram profile as more of your personal photo album and less of a public bulletin board, Instagram's newest upcoming feature is just for you. Instagram will let users quietly post to your profile without broadcasting it to your followers, the company said on Thursday. Instagram also said it would let you rearrange your profile grid. It's not clear how either feature will work yet. Static posts and Reels have appeared in chronological order on Instagram, so this could also open the door to let users, creators and businesses have the flexibility to rearrange their grid for other reasons, like sharing their favorite memories first. Instagram has a pinned feature that allows this, but reorganizing your photos could make it more personal. The idea is to boost creativity without the need to chase followers and likes. "We hope this added flexibility over how and where your content shows up helps you create and share without added pressure," Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said in a statement. Details were scarce. A representative for Instagram did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
