As we speak Instagram has introduced some new options, together with Repost, which is mainly Twitter’s Retweet. You’ll be able to repost public reels and feed posts, and your reposts shall be beneficial to your pals and followers of their feeds. Reposts may even be present in a separate tab in your profile so that you (or another person) can at all times return and revisit them.
Reposts are credited to the unique poster. So when your public reels and posts are reposted by another person, they’re beneficial to that particular person’s followers, even when these folks do not comply with you. Thus, you’ve gotten “a brand new alternative to succeed in extra folks everytime you create one thing value sharing”, Instagram says.
You’ll be able to add a be aware to any repost by typing into the ‘thought bubble’ that seems on display as soon as you have hit the repost icon.
Subsequent up, a characteristic that Instagram copied from Snapchat, not Twitter – the Instagram Map. This allows you to decide into sharing your final energetic location with the buddies you decide. You’ll be able to flip it off at any time, and open the map to see content material your pals and favourite creators are posting from “cool spots”.
Instagram payments this as “a brand new, light-weight method to join”. Location sharing is off by default, and you may select who you share it with (pals, Shut Buddies, or solely chosen pals). You may also select to not share your location in particular locations or with particular folks.
For those who use location sharing, your location is up to date once you open the Instagram app or once you return to it if it has been operating within the background. For those who’re a dad or mum with supervision arrange for a teen, you possibly can management their location sharing expertise – you may get a notification if they begin sharing their location, and determine whether or not they have entry to location sharing on the map in addition to see who they’re sharing their location with.
No matter whether or not you are sharing your location, you possibly can see location-tagged content material on the map, together with reels, posts, and tales from folks you comply with, in addition to notes from folks you mutually comply with. All of that is obtainable for twenty-four hours. You’ll find the map on the high of your DM inbox. That is presently rolling out within the US, with “extra world availability quickly”.
Lastly, there is a new Buddies tab in Reels, showcasing public content material your pals have interacted with or suggestions from Blends you have began. Instagram says this can “enable you see which reels the folks you care about most are creating and interesting with”. Buddies began rolling out earlier this 12 months, and is now launching globally.
