Tuesday, November 5

Tag: photo sharing

Instagram Rolls Out Three Fresh Features to its Stories Format
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Instagram Rolls Out Three Fresh Features to its Stories Format

Photo-sharing social media platform Instagram has launched new features that change the way you interact with the people you follow on the platform. With the new updates, the users will now be able to use the questions sticker for music recommendations in Stories. A person's followers will now respond to question sticker with a song from the music library. These responses will appear right above the list of people who have viewed your Story and you can tap on it to play the track. Also, you will be able to share their response to your Instagram Story as well and while doing that, you’ll be able to capture a photo or video as the music plays in the background. Moreover, there will be new effects in the music mode that "respond to the beats and sounds of a song." It must...
Instagram to Test New Shopping Feature To Buy Products From Retailers
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Instagram to Test New Shopping Feature To Buy Products From Retailers

Facebook Inc's Instagram said that it will start tests next week on a new shopping feature through which users can buy products from US-based retailers via the photo-sharing app. Retailers will be able to showcase up to five products in a Instagram post, and clicking on the various tags will give users a lot more detail about the product than was previously available, Instagram said in a blog post on Tuesday. Instagram has also added a "shop now" link on each product, which, when clicked, will redirect users to the retailer's website where they can buy the product. The new features are aimed at keeping Instagram users, who now number more than 500 million, on the app for longer during their shopping experience than before, when they would have to exit the app to research and bu...