[Instagram Update]: "see more"

onelettershor · Dec 10, 2015

As some of you know the new instagram update has the "see more" - it's been a while surprised I have yet to see a thread, maybe I'm blind if so I may be.

This affects people doing long shoutouts, but also good for hashtags as some parts will be hidden.

Let's collect ideas

Euphorix · Dec 10, 2015

Beginning to restrict post visibility. Makes you wonder where IG is heading

bramcom · Dec 10, 2015

true but i think the bots still fetch the hashtags, etc. in the end i think it is something good. Instagram was never about the text but about the images....

Euphorix said:
Beginning to restrict post visibility. Makes you wonder where IG is heading

envisioned · Dec 10, 2015

well, now the first line has to be something which catches your attention, not bad at all

bartosimpsonio · Dec 10, 2015

Euphorix said:
Beginning to restrict post visibility. Makes you wonder where IG is heading

Just Facebook being Facebook. Since they bought IG it's clear where they're going with it.

GreyHatNewb · Dec 10, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
Just Facebook being Facebook. Since they bought IG it's clear where they're going with it.

I mentioned that in some other post, we MUST look at IG as FB, and treat it the same. Nothing IG does shouldn't shock anyone, expect it and be prepared, cause its def coming!

Redox123 · Dec 10, 2015

I made a thread some days ago. No replay..
Any ideas how to make the best out of it?

onelettershor · Dec 10, 2015

It stops spam I guess, as some profiles post long asss shoutouts.
Makes sense, just use your words well I guess.

Dbeck19 · Dec 10, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
Just Facebook being Facebook. Since they bought IG it's clear where they're going with it.

Agreed, they just want to give page owners less visibility. So they can make them pay for ads.

Very different platform though as Instagram is picture based, so for the people on Instagram (that are not brands/ niche pages) and are showing pictures to their friends you wonder how they will minimize reach without making people frustrated that their friends don't see all their uploads.

Instagram's main USP is a forum to share photos amongst friends, so they risk major downside if they make the same changed they did to Facebook's algorithm.

Euphorix · Dec 11, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
Just Facebook being Facebook. Since they bought IG it's clear where they're going with it.

Scary.. Invested a lot of money into IG. Think we're probably a good year out from seeing a significant engagement drop but still..

ReflexSocial came out today. Supposed to be the next big thing

Sythix · Dec 11, 2015

Time to start making new social networks, as zuckerbooger will run all the current ones into the ground. If a giant like MySpace could fall, why can't FB and friends?

hekke · Dec 11, 2015

GreyHatNewb said:
I mentioned that in some other post, we MUST look at IG as FB, and treat it the same. Nothing IG does shouldn't shock anyone, expect it and be prepared, cause its def coming!

Actually, they even have the same domain block-list.

So if your domain gets blocked on IG, you can't use it on FB.

Euphorix · Dec 11, 2015

hekke said:
Actually, they even have the same domain block-list.

So if your domain gets blocked on IG, you can't use it on FB.

WOW.. How do you know this?

Sythix · Dec 11, 2015

Euphorix said:
WOW.. How do you know this?

His domain probably got banned?

Shittttty

asap1 · Dec 11, 2015

Wait until they start cutting your reach....if they haven't already.

Dbeck19 · Dec 11, 2015

asap1 said:
Wait until they start cutting your reach....if they haven't already.

They will have to act different to FB,

Cutting reach to 4% or whatever FB is currently on Instagram would be insane.

For the mass market of regular user on Instagram having their post shown to 4 out of every 100 would be a massive loss in engagement also!

hekke · Dec 12, 2015

Euphorix said:
WOW.. How do you know this?

As Sythix said, my domains always got blacklisted when I tried to promote it on Facebook. Facebook crawlers seem to be way better though (when I did that) while Instagram I could easily get away with by redirecting US visitors to another website or just not do anything at all - it seemed to work.

splishsplash1 · Dec 12, 2015

Why is everybody worrying? By the time they do something (if they do something) you should all have large enough accounts to be able to sustain yourselves anyway. Your followers will still see your regular posts. I'd only be worrying if I found out about how to profit from IG a week before they changed it for the worse.

Euphorix said:
ReflexSocial came out today. Supposed to be the next big thing

What is ReflexSocial?

switchblade · Dec 12, 2015

Dbeck19 said:
For the mass market of regular user on Instagram having their post shown to 4 out of every 100 would be a massive loss in engagement also!

FB, Google and other big dogs are not interested in 'regular users'. They all want us to pay through the nose for using their platforms. I expect IG will eventually become a clone of FB.

BenChevy · Dec 12, 2015

I don't understand what you guys mean by reduced visibility on Instagram? Instagram doesn't have an algorithm that determines what is most interesting and displaying on top of your feed. It just shows the latest content by time.

Also Instagram users behave differently in that its easy for them to unfollow accounts they don't find interesting so engagement will remain stable. Whereas people will like almost any page on Facebook. The mistake Facebook made was pushing people to like lots of pages in order to determine peoples interest which allowed advertisers to have very specific targeting.

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