Instagram unveiled Stories again in 2016. The characteristic lets customers submit photographs and movies that vanish after 24 hours. Since its launch, this interactive characteristic has grown quickly in reputation and change into a game-changer for Instagram by hitting a every day consumer depend of 500 million in 2019. Now, the Meta (previously Facebook) owned picture and video-sharing platform is seeking to introduce a brand new characteristic for Stories. Instagram would possibly quickly enable customers to share one other consumer’s Instagram profile on their Stories. The upcoming characteristic was first noticed by a well-liked developer.
Noted developer Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) on X (previously Twitter) has advised that Instagram is engaged on a brand new characteristic that enables customers to share different consumer’s profiles on their Stories. This characteristic is alleged to work just like the present “Add to Story” choice. Users can show one other profile on their Instagram Story and invite followers to go to and observe the customers account or web page.
The screenshot shared by Paluzzi exhibits that Stories will present a “View Profile” button to ask viewers to go to the talked about profile. This characteristic, as soon as it goes reside, is anticipated to assist folks share profiles and help in rising the profile visibility and follower depend of content material creators and influencers. Like the photographs and movies shared in Stories, the profile invitations are additionally anticipated to vanish after 24 hours and will not seem on the profile grid or within the feed.
Instagram has not too long ago added a bunch of latest options. It launched music lyrics show performance for reels offering extra choices to customize Reels with favorite tunes. The platform additionally unveiled new Reels modifying instruments together with cropping and rotating of particular person clips.
The Meta-owned app has additionally expanded the Close Friends characteristic that enables customers to share posts and reels to their foremost feed that may solely be seen to folks on the record. Meta is presently additionally providing a paid ad-free subscription for Instagram customers within the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
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