Instagram no longer displays usernames for photos with less than 10 ‘likes’
Feb 19, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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This is interesting. Instagram is changing a small, but prominent feature of its social network service.
Instagram is testing a change in how it displays ‘likes’ of images. Specifically, the Facebook-owned social network is starting to use only numbers to show how many likes an image has received—something once reserved for photos that more than ten users had liked.
Until now, photos that had under ten likes showed the usernames of those who liked the image. Now it’s nothing more than a number next to the signature ‘♡’ icon.
https://twitter.com/mekosoff/status/700398862637338625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Even though Instagram changed the numbers, I still wait in anticipation for my picture to have 11 likes…
— Emily Benkert (@erbenkert) February 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/davidkbranson/status/700385953823768576
https://twitter.com/fijiwaterpapi/status/700174652333641730
Instagram hasn’t said when the change will permanently take effect, if it will at all, but we’ll keep an eye out.
[via Mashable]
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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