Mirroring the moves of parent company Facebook, Instagram warned users and businesses today that their photo feeds “will soon be ordered to show the moments we believe you will care about the most.”
Up until now, Instagram organized its feeds in reverse-chronological order. That is, photos in your feed appeared whenever they were shared.
The change was inevitable. As the New York Times writes, Facebook introduced algorithmic ordering to its News Feed back in 2009. And while the change prompted protests, the resulting panic was short-lived. We’ll likely see the same results with Instagram, which appears to be handling the situation cautiously: “We’re going to take time to get this right and listen to your feedback along the way,” the company wrote in a blog post.
For now, Instagram is testing the change with a small subset of users, the NYT writes. But make no mistake, Instagram’s decision appears to be a permanent: “You’ll see this new experience in the coming months,” the company wrote.
The photos you see on Instagram will soon be decided by an algorithm
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