Monday Morning Learning – 8 February 2021
Published on 11 Feb '21
Facebook May Soon Enable Users to Share their Instagram Reels to Facebook Watch
Facebook has begun testing a new option that enables Instagram Reels creators to share their Reels clips into Facebook News Feed and Facebook Watch. This test appears to currently be being pushed in India, where Instagram initially launched Reels as a replacement for the banned TikTok.
Instagram Tests Removing the Option to Share Feed Posts Within Stories
That, interestingly, means that you can now share tweets in your IG Stories, but you can’t share Instagram posts, while you can also share IGTV previews, but not normal feed updates.
Instagram Likely To Launch Vertical Stories Feature: Here’s How It Will Work
The social media giant is reportedly working on a ‘Vertical Stories’ feed that will allow users to scroll through posts vertically instead of horizontally. The feature was recently spotted under development by a technocrat on Twitter. However, it is still undergoing the testing phase and may not be released anytime soon.
Instagram Adds ‘Recently Deleted’ Folder to Safeguard Against Mistaken Post Removal
This will make many Instagrammers very happy – the platform is today adding a new ‘Recently Deleted’ folder which will enable users to restore any feed posts that they’ve deleted for 30 days after the fact.
Instagram Tests Removing the Option to Share Feed Posts Within Stories
Instagram is now conducting a test that stops some users from sharing feed posts within their Stories. That, interestingly, means that you can now share tweets in your IG Stories, but you can’t share Instagram posts, while you can also share IGTV previews, but not normal feed updates.
This is to prompt users to create content specifically dedicated to each stream. More specific content equals a better user experience – but how much, if this change is rolled out more broadly, will this impact overall Stories sharing? You would assume that a lot of Stories updates are re-shared feed posts. The fact that Instagram is willing to reduce this seems like a positive sign for its development focus – but it might also indicate that people are viewing Stories less as a result of such shares, which has prompted Instagram to take action.
Tiktok has Launched a Share to IG Stories Option
Previously, TikTok allowed users to share to Instagram feed only, and for those that had to share to Instagram stories, they had to do so natively by downloading the video and resharing – the overall look of which was rather messy due to the fact that TikTok’s watermarks conflicted with Instagram’s UI. Now, with the TikTok to IG Stories option, the watermark appears on the side and the sharing is much more seamless.
