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Social Media thoughts, tips, tricks and discussions.

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Do you embed social content?

I've shared some views and compared embeds from Instagram, Twitter and Telegram.

Share your thoughts in the comments 👍

#Instagram #Twitter #Telegram
View Followed Hashtags on Instagram

You have been able to "follow" a hashtag on Instagram for ages, but I cannot (now) for the life of me now see how to view all the hashtags followed by the account I am currently using.

Any tips?

#Instagram #Discussion
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Instagram Story highlights now function, on the desktop, in a similar fashion to the mobile App.

#Instagram
Facebook - Instagram Live Rooms

To start a Live Room, swipe left and pick the Live camera option. Then, add a title and tap the Rooms icon to add your guests. You’ll see people who have requested to go live with you, and you can also search for a guest to add. When you start a Live Room, you’ll remain at the top of the screen when you add guests. As a broadcaster, you can add up to three guests at once or one by one.

Guests’ followers can also be notified.

Source: Facebook

#Instagram #Feature
Suggested Posts

Instagram putting suggested posts in the stream directly before you start seeing old stuff is extremely well thought out and affective.

I hate it.

#Instagram #Feature
YOUR Instagram Hashtags

It's something I assume everyone knows and then people's behaviour reminds me that they might not.

On Instagram hashtags you add to YOUR posts, or in comments on your posts, will return in search.

Hashtags others add in comments on posts which are not theirs do NOT return in a search for that hashtag.

#Instagram #Tip
Instagram Follow Limit

I didn't know there was a limit to the number of accounts one can follow on Instagram.

Not that I'm likely to bump up against that. How about you?

#Instagram
Top Posts on Instagram from Cologne, Germany

Any "location" that becomes a popular posting location tends towards showing posts which do not seem to be about the location, but rather reflect certain aspects (mostly narcissism?) of human nature.

Is this unavoidable? Could the platforms do better? Should they do better?

What are your views?

#Instagram #Discussion
Add pronouns to your Instagram profile.

The new field is available in a few countries, with plans for more.

Via Instagram comms.

Is this important to you?


#Instagram
Instagram now allows posting directly from desktop.

Excited?

#Instagram #Discussion
Add links in Instagram Stories for all accounts.

The feature was limited to verified accounts or those with a certain number of followers.

To add a Link sticker:
▪️Capture or upload content to your story
▪️Select the sticker tool from the top navigation bar
▪️Tap the “Link” sticker to add your desired link and tap “Done”
▪️Place the sticker on your story — like our other stickers — and tap on the sticker to see color variations

Ref: #Instagram

Note: new accounts and accounts that repeatedly share things like hate speech, misinformation, or other content that violates Instagram's Community Guidelines will not have access to the Link sticker.
When you reluctantly post a "Reel" on Instagram ...

... knowing that you're being maniplulated.

#Instagram
Instagram Favourites

"Today, we’re introducing Favorites and Following, two new ways to choose what you see in your feed."

My view: A half baked power user feature.

A maximum of fifty accounts can be favourited. That's an abitrarily low numer for power users, who are (mostly) the only users that will use this feature.

Your thoughts?

#Instagram #Feature #Discussion
You can now choose up to three posts or Reels to pin to the top of your Instagram profile.

#Instagram #Feature
Comment Spam on Instagram

This seems to be a pretty big problem. How do you deal with it?

#Instagram
Have a hashtag in your Instagram bio?

If you want it to be a clickable link both in the mobile App and on the webapp you will need to use all lower case.

People often use Camel case for hashtags to make them more readable, but if you do so for hashtags in you Instagram bio the hashtag will NOT be clickable on your profile when viewed using a web browser.

Most people are not aware of this because they use Instagram just with the mobile App.

#Instagram
What has Instagram got against capitalisation? 🤷‍♂️

I dunno, but if you have any hashtags in your bio or link to a hashtag results page anywhere on the web, then you should be aware that Instagram does not play well with capitalisation.

Any link to a hashtag page with a capital in the URL will return a not found / error page when being accessed on the web.

Example:
......explore/tags/MyEhrenfeld
Will fail in a browser.
......explore/tags/myehrenfeld
Will work in a browser.

I guess it's not a huge issue for most people, just an irritation for those this might affect.

Any idea why Instagram hates capitalisation?

#Instagram
Curretly Instagram hashtag pages, on web, are only showing a three-by-three grid of the "top posts" tagged with that hashtag.

Not sure if this has anything to do with yesterday's issues. It'll probably be a while before anyone else notices 🤷‍♂️

#Instagram
Instagram stops allowing you to see "Recent" hashtagged photos. Now you have the option to see "Recent top posts" instead.

I guess this is to combat hashtag spam, but the question is will it show all genuinely tagged images? 🤷‍♂️

#Instagram
When did Instagram introduce it's "For you" stream?

#Instagram