The livestreaming platform announced that this week, every channel will get the ability to edit and share clips straight to Instagram.
How useful that is for Twitch’s gaming-focused creators is up for debate, but with TikTok’s future in question, adding Instagram to the mix seems sensible.
From Alessandro Paluzzi, who recently posted screenshots of how writing Community Notes might look like on Threads, too.
Instagram’s chief says the changes reflect the domination of vertical content on the platform, and that highlighted stories should be coming to the grid in the future.
Instagram is also building tools that will allow users to re-order their grids and post to it directly without pushing posts to feeds — but Mosseri says this “may very well change as we iterate over the next couple months.”
404 Media reports that trans and non-binary pride chat themes were “retired” this week and announcements scrubbed from the web — just as Meta is allowing more hate speech.
“Messenger is committed to building the safest private messaging experience that gives the growing LBGTQ+ community and its allies a trusted space to open up with confidence,” one announcement read. To borrow Mark Zuckerberg’s own words: sounds like virtue signaling.
