These are the news of Instagram Stories

Without a doubt, the Stories or Instagram Stories have managed to gain a foothold among users of social networks. And it is that, despite being a shameless carbon copy of what was seen on Snapchat, their small contributions and already having a community of extensive and consolidated users has made them leave their mark. Now, to avoid losing traction, Instagram enhances them with new features, making them more dynamic, fun and interactiveSomething that begins to create a concept of social network within the social network itself.

Boomerang

Regular users of Instagram will be well acquainted with this tool created by the social network itself. It is, originally, an application designed to create video loops Something like GIF , but with a slightly different format. Contents that look really good on social networks and that usually have a fun touch when repeating a small action for a few seconds. Well, now this feature is integrated into the Stories, and it doesn't matter if you previously have the Boomerang appor not.

Just move from the Normal tab to Boomerang in the stories capture screen. This changes the shooting mode from taking a photo to capturing a burst Putting all these photos together, one after the other, results in aanimation effect that repeats from front to back and back to front. The result is published in Stories as a video more.

Mentions

It's finally possible to share moments in these stories with other people Now it's possible to mention a a friend or contact when a Story is created to keep you in the loop. As always, simply include the @ symbol followed by your username This will display underscore in history and is clickable or tappableWith this, any visionary of said History can do the same and get a window to appear with which to reach the profile of the mentioned user. This, in turn, receives a notification to be taken directly to the Story where it was mentioned.

There is a variant in case the mentioned user is not a follower of the person who creates the Story If this happens, the notification is received through the Instagram Direct section, as a private message, where you decide whether to whether or not you want to pay attention to the Story where your name has been written.

See more

But what gives the key to the success of the Instagram Stories is that the company is already thinking about selling spaces and introducing content who, presumably, have paid to be there, or who want to give visibility to some content. In this way, some accounts, as a test, already allow you to insert links to their web pages and services directly in the Stories To do this, all you have to do is click on the See More option that appears right at the bottom of your Stories, taking the user to those destinations to expand the information that is displayed in the content.

In short, an update that only shows that Instagram is doing well with this ephemeral content. The update also comes without having to download a new version from Google Play Store or App StoreWhile we start enjoying these features, Instagram Confirm that you are working on the live broadcasts , although it is currently unknown when we will start seeing this feature.