Starting today, you’ll be able to send polls through direct messages in Instagram. It works the same as adding the poll sticker to your stories, but now, you’ll be presented with the option to send the story to your own selection of users. Everyone in the group chat will be able to view the poll results as they vote in real time. It’s not as groundbreaking of an update as, say, the ability to mute your friends’ posts, but it’s still a useful tool for when you just want to poll a small group of relevant people, like a dinner party or family members.
Instagram now lets you send private polls through DMs
The group chat gets a little more organized
The group chat gets a little more organized
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The poll sticker has been available for Stories since last October, and since then, it has been joined by the Emoji slider and the Questions sticker. Instagram is going full-force to increase engagement between users, even if it means turning the platform into something like ask.fm.
Like many of Instagram’s new features, the update is rolling out now to a select group of users on Android and iOS.
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