Changes include toning down algorithm that resulted in users’ feeds being deluged with videos from accounts they do not follow
Instagram is reversing some changes to the app following aThe photo and video sharing app was accused of mimicking TikTok at the expense of its most loyal users, after user anger at a series of changes boiled over this week.said on Thursday it was rolling back some of the changes including a test version of the app that gave a full-screen display to posts.
“I’m glad we took a risk – if we’re not failing every once in a while, we’re not thinking big enough or bold enough,” said Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, in an interview with. “But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. [When] we’ve learned a lot, then we come back with some sort of new idea or iteration. So we’re going to work through that.”
People who used the platform to interact with friends and family also complained that their feeds had been flooded with unwanted videos. The backlash prompted Mosseri to– which he said was recorded before he saw the Kardashian posts – in which he said “more and more of Instagram is going to become video over time”. But by Thursday he had conceded that Instagram had gone too far.
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