Instagram is inspired once again from its competitors with three new functions: a flow of republications at the Tiktok, a copy of the Snap Map and a tab to see with what content his friends interacted.
Instagram continues to have new functions, even if it means moving away from its initial concept – photography. By dint of wanting to copy Tiktok by betting everything on the reels, these short videos in horizontal format that we scroll until you lose any notion of time, the photos of the accounts followed are less and less visible on the main news. And that is not likely to improve! The social network has decided to draw inspiration from its other competitors with new functions, including a reels republication thread and a map similar to the Snap Map, as it announces in a blog post.
Instagram: when the social network is inspired by its competitors
From today, users will be able to republish public reels and publications carried out by other accounts. As on Tiktok, these republications will be grouped in a dedicated tab on its profile and broadcast on the news wires of the subscribers. Note that republications are well attributed to their original author, but that it is possible to add a note to it by writing in the bubble of reflection which appears on the screen and by pressing “save”. This marks a hell of a change since, so far, the only way to share the content of other users was to republish it in its Instagram story. There, at least, it is clearer and it allows you to separate the publications of your friends and the content they leave.
Instagram is also inspired by Snapchat by adding a card to share your latest active position with friends of your choice (friends, close friends, only selected friends or nobody). It also makes it possible to find specific content to certain places, such as a music festival or a museum, hence many people publish – but this function already existed, although not necessarily very intuitive. Exactly like the Snap Map!
Finally, Instagram welcomes “friends”, a new tab in the reals that displays the content with which our friends have interacted. It had been launched in the United States earlier in the year-where it was welcomed in a mixed manner-and is now deployed globally, but with reinforced controls: it is indeed possible to hide its “like” mentions and its comments on the reels, and to deactivate the activity bubbles of people we follow, in the event that it does not interest us. As we said, Instagram really has nothing to do with photography!