{"id":846,"date":"2018-09-21T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridence.wordpress.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:11:16","slug":"instagram-is-testing-a-regram-feature-to-natively-repost-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/instagram-is-testing-a-regram-feature-to-natively-repost-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is testing a \u2018regram\u2019 feature to natively repost content"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Twitter, there\u2019s the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing.<\/p>\n

To date, users have had to get creative in their attempts to repost content from other accounts on to their own timelines. Some used third-party apps that were just as good, sometimes better, at stealing data and hijacking accounts as they were at actually sharing content. Others just downloaded or screenshotted the original, and then republished it to their own feed \u2014 hopefully with a citation to the original.<\/p>\n

For years, though, Instagram users have been asking for a native share feature, just like those available in other popular social networks. And now, according to a scoop by\u00a0The Verge<\/em><\/a>, it seems they might actually get it.<\/p>\n

The feature is known internally as \u201cseamless sharing,\u201d according to The Verge\u2019s Casey Newton, and it introduces a new \u201cshare to feed\u201d option that appears in the top-right of every post. Reshared posts appear much like retweets, with the original content nestled below the name of the person who shared it.<\/p>\n

Our request for comment to Instagram went unanswered, although we did speak with sources familiar with the feature who confirmed its existence. According to\u00a0The Verge<\/em>, which obtained two screenshots of the new feature, it\u2019s looking pretty rough in its current form. It\u2019s clear that any work on a \u201cregram\u201d feature is in its early stages.<\/p>\n

According to Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the feature has been discussed internally for years. Systrom told\u00a0Wired<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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We debate the re-share thing a lot. Because obviously people love the idea of re-sharing content that they find. Instagram is full of awesome stuff. In fact, one of the main ways people communicate over Instagram Direct now is actually they share content that they find on Instagram. So that\u2019s been a debate over and over again. But really that decision is about keeping your feed focused on the people you know rather than the people you know finding other stuff for you to see. And I think that is more of a testament of our focus on authenticity and on the connections you actually have than about anything else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No word on when we might see the new feature, or even if it\u2019ll make it out of the testing phase. But, fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Author:\u00a0BRYAN CLARK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Twitter, there\u2019s the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing. To date, users have had to get creative in their attempts to repost content from other accounts on to their own timelines. Some used third-party apps that were just as good, sometimes better, at stealing data and hijacking accounts as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_metasync_otto_title":"","_metasync_otto_description":"","_metasync_otto_keywords":"","_metasync_otto_og_title":"","_metasync_otto_og_description":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_title":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_aioseo_title":"","_aioseo_description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}