New Delhi: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is going to stop features that emulate TikTok’s features. After facing severe criticism from users, the company’s flagship has decided to roll back the new features including a full-screen home feed and more recommended posts. Many users and international celebrities were campaigning against the recent changes. Users started campaigning against Instagram for losing originality. He called for the social networking platform to become similar to TikTok. Celebrity sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner also joined the campaign and slogged on social media.
The slogan “Make Instagram Instagram again” and stop trying to be like TikTok, sprung from a Change.org petition, which has garnered more than 2,29,000 signatures as of Thursday. “Let’s go back to our roots with Instagram and remember that the intention behind Instagram was to share photos for Pete’s sake,” the petition said. ,ALSO READ: Apple India revenue nearly doubles in June 2022 quarter,
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri posted a video to Twitter earlier this week and assured the public that the recently updated features are in the testing phase and are being tested with a small number of users. “I’m glad we took the risk – if we’re not going to fail every once in a while, we’re not thinking big or bold enough. But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. When we learn a lot, then we come back with some kind of new idea or repetition. So we’re going to work through it”, Mosseri said in an interview with platformer Casey Newton. ,ALSO READ: ITR Filing FY 2021-22: #ExtendDueDate immediately trends on Twitter,
“If you look at what people share on Instagram, which is shifting more and more into video over time, we have to lean into that change,” he said. After severe criticism, the social networking platform showed concerns and plans to take a step back and figure out how to move forward.