Instagram May Soon Let You Tag Friends in Videos

Sep. 11, 2018

Because of the inherent difficulty in accurately overlaying text on moving subjects, Instagram is reportedly considering adding a button which will display the list of tagged accounts separately. It’s not immediately clear, however, whether such videos will also appear on the profiles of the tagged users like they do for photos.Image Courtesy:@cablegirlsrd(Instagram)/TechCrunch

Instagram didn’t reveal much about the upcoming feature, but said that it is only being tested with a“small percentage”of users for now. There’s no word on when the company plans on expanding the test to a wider user base, and certainly no info about when it expects to roll out the feature to all users globally.

It’s worth noting here that the feature is only being tested on Instagram mobile apps for now, and is unavailable on the web client. There’s no clarification on whether the company plans to introduce the feature on the website at some stage, of if it will remain app-exclusive in the foreseeable future.

Instagram has been releasing tons of new features in recent times to stay ahead of rivals such as Snapchat on the one hand and YouTube on another withIGTV. Towards that end, itcopied the former’s‘Stories’featurea couple of years ago, androlled out IGTVrecently in a bid to get a chunk out of YouTube’s massive market-share.

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