At the end of yesterday afternoon, Wednesday 27 October, Instagram announced (who) an important novelty: the possibility for everyone to share links within the Stories, until now reserved for verified accounts or with more than 10 thousand followers.
From Instagram they explained that “from now (better: since the app will be updated, ed) all profiles, regardless of the number of followers, will be able to insert external links in the Stories “, that” this new feature can be used by creators to make their voices heard in support of important issues such as equality and social justice “and that “for companies it could be a way to share new offers with customers or for artists it could represent a way to make their works known.” accounts that will repeatedly share content that has to do with hate speech and disinformation or others who violate our policies will not have access to this function. ”In the sense that it will be suspended or removed permanently.
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by Viola Stefanello
How links are inserted in Stories
The process of sharing links in Stories is simple:
- once the history is created, above you select the Stickers icon;
- you look for the Link sticker (it’s after that Poll);
- click and insert the link that the Story should point to;
- and place the sticker in the Story (like other stickers), possibly changing the color.
The sticker is the one that replaced the Swipe Up button last summer, which allowed you to do the same thing as accessing a link by swiping up the Story. From Instagram, on the other hand, they do not seem willing to give the possibility to insert links that lead to the outside also in the comments, although “in the coming months we will work on new updates for the links”.
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