Today Instagram has announced some new features including Repost, which is originally a Twitter retweet. You can repost public reels and feed posts, and your repost will be recommended to your friends and followers in their feed. Reposts will also be found in a separate tab on your profile so that you (or someone else) can always go back and see them again.
Repost is credited to the original poster. So when your public reels and posts are re -prepared by someone else, they are recommended to that person’s followers, even if they do not follow you. Thus, you have “a new opportunity to reach more people whenever you make something to share”, Instagram says.
You can add a note by typing any repost in a ‘thought bubble’ that appears on the screen, when you hit the repost icon.
Next, a feature that Instagram copied from Snapchat, not Twitter – Instagram Map. This gives you the option to share your last active location with friends you choose. You can close it at any time, and open the map to see the material posing from your friends and favorite manufacturers “cool spots”.
Instagram billed it as “a new, light way to connect”. The location sharing is closed by default, and you can choose with whom you share it with (friends, close friends, or only selected friends). You can also choose your location not to share at specific places or with specific people.
If you use location sharing, then your location is updated when you open the Instagram app or when you are running in the background. If you are a parent with a supervision installed for a teenager, you can control their location sharing experience -you will get a information if they start sharing their location, and decide if they share the place on the map and also see with whom they are sharing their place with.
Even if you are sharing your location, you can see the place-tag material on the map, which includes reel, posts, and stories from those you follow, as well as notes of those you follow mutually. All this is available for 24 hours. You can find a map on top of your DM inbox. It is currently rolling out in the US with “more global availability soon”.
Finally, the reels have a new friend tab, which your friends have interacted with the mixture you have started or with recommendations, show public content. Instagram says that it will “help you see what people you care for, who care and attach together”. Friends started rolling out earlier this year, and are now launching globally.
