- Instagram is testing changes on users’ news feed
- The changes are not yet rolled out broadly but users are now panicking and expressing their opposition
- The changes involve changing the order of the posts on news feed and requiring users to turn on notifications for accounts they want to see posts of
Earlier this month, Instagram announced to the public and the press, that it will test some changes on its news feed.
As the company rolled out its tests gradually, various news sites including Tech Times and KTLA, that users are in a panic.
The changes involve the users’ news feed. Instead of having a reverse chronological order of posts on its feed, Instagram is trying out an algorithm-based feed, one that would show the most relevant content to its users.
So far, none of the social media’s users are happy about it. Celebrities like John Mayer and Kendall Jenner have been outspoken about their frustration on the changes.
“My tastes, interest and curiosities change every day; if I’m not even sure what’s relevant to me, how will you know?” Mayer posted on his Instagram account last week.
“Don’t fix something that isn’t broken,” Jenner tweeted. Jenner has 52.6 million followers on Instagram.
A woman also launched a petition on Change.org shortly after Instagram made the announcement. It currently has over 300,000 signatures.
The main thing that users are against is that the changes have a call to action: “Turn me on.” Users now have the option of turning on notifications to guarantee that their feed includes posts from the accounts they turned the notifications on for. It will send a notification when that account posts. This is not something new for Instagram but it is highly unlike that people will turn on their notifications for every single account that they follow or they will be overwhelmed and bombarded with notifications.
“We’re listening, and we assure you nothing is changing with your feed right now. We promise to let you know when changes roll out broadly,” Instagram tweeted on Monday.
Furthermore, an Instagram spokesman emphasized that only a “very small, single digit percentage” of the Instagram community is affected by the testing of the new algorithm.
Instagram said it will take weeks or months before any news feed changes will be rolled out broadly.
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