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Instagram Now Shows Users’ Online Status

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Instagram Now Shows Users’ Online Status

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  1. Now Shows Users' nline Status

  2. Instagram has recently implemented a significant update which most digital marketers believe as the company’s way of improving the platform’s user experience. It was found out that the recent update allows Instagram users to see the online status of the friends that they have direct messaged. In a post published by Search Engine Journal, it was revealed that the new feature that Instagram introduced seems to work the way the Facebook Messenger does. This means that a green dot is now found on the profile picture of an Instagram user, indicating that he or she is online.

  3. Furthermore, the same post also explained that the green dot or the online indicator is designed to appear in the DM inbox of a user as well as on its friend’s list in case he or she would share a post from their feed. However, the online status of an Instagram user will only be visible to his or her followers. Also, the online indicator will be visible to people that the user has previously direct messaged. Given this setup, it is quite clear that Instagram still values the privacy of its users. This is because the online indicator is only visible to people that a user is connected to.

  4. In addition to that, users of Instagram are given the option to control how to broadcast their online status. Users who don’t want to broadcast their latest online status can turn this off via the account’s setting menu. Those who want to broadcast their status can use the same feature to make them visible to their followers. Finally, Instagram hinted that the new feature is now available to all iOS and Android users who are using the updated version of the app.

  5. S URCE: https://digitalmarketingjournal .weebly.com/blog/instagram-now- shows-users-online-status

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