Instagram now suggests Twitter-style profiles to follow
The photography social network continues to grow. And not only in number of users, but also in functionalities Thus, now it has a new question related to its operation and the more social aspect. Something that drinks directly from what has been seen on Twitter and with which, apparently, it has more and more in common. These are suggestions to follow new users and thus discover related accounts.An issue that could boost a new push and growth in the number of users.
This is a feature well known by regular users of Twitter And, from now on, users Instagram who follow a profile will see a new card with suggestions from other profiles right between the information of said contact and their images to follow. Something like the feature “you may also want to follow”¦” featured on Twitterwhen following a new user.
A good technique to get increase the number of people that a user follows. It's not an extremely custom feature, though, although it's a smart thing to do. According to media sources The Verge, Instagram uses a algorithm that automatically suggests new users related in some way to the profile you just started followingIn this way, it is possible that when you start to follow a member of a band, the rest of the accounts of that band appear in the suggestions section. In turn, they may be related to other artists, either by contact, mentions or any other detail that links their accounts. Something that offers an endless suggestions so that the relationships of this social network continue to grow and strengthen.
But it is not the only thing that they have been able to adopt from the social network Twitter And it is that, for a few months, the engineers of Instagram have worked on improve the Explore tab In this way, they have managed to make it not a mere place to see photographs of any user that are being a trend. Thus, avoiding favoring only the most followed images so as not to enter into a vicious circle, they have managed to customize this section
With this, each user discovers a page with completely different content. And it is that the criteria are more personalized, being able to see photos that are trending in each country , but also images that are presented in this place because they are related to the people who are already followed Something very similar to the news, tweets and messages from the Discover tab in Twitter, which takes the user's own values as reference points, obtaining information of interest for different reasons.
In this way, and without the need for the user to update the application, Instagram becomes more social, seeking to grow relationships through its users. And it is not only possible to find new profiles to continue attracting through the photos in the menu Explore , now the suggestions and relationships between the users themselves come into play.Would this option discredit the artistic value of the social network?