After strong criticism of Instagram’s changes to copy China’s TikTok, the platform’s president, Adam Mosseri, has announced plans to remove the updates. Mark Zuckerberg may be obsessed with his future Metaverse, but his short-term goal is to win back the youth market by crushing TikTok and Snapchat.
The Verge reports that Instagram plans to roll back some recent changes to its platform after a week of criticism. Similar to China’s TikTok app, the trial version of the app, which opens to full-screen photos and videos, will be discontinued in the next one to two weeks, and Instagram will also reduce the number of featured posts in the app. for improving its algorithms.
Shuzi Chu, CEO of TikTok Inc., Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri (Steve Jennings/Getty)
Breitbart News recently reported that Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian criticized Instagram for trying to impersonate TikTok.
Breitbart News reports:
Jenner, who has 361 million followers on Instagram and Kardashian, who has 326 million followers on the platform, shared an Instagram story on Monday that reads “Remake Instagram Instagram”.
“Stop trying to be a TikTok, I just want to see cute pictures of my friends. Best regards to everyone in the message,” it said.
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Celebrity sisters are known for their ability to impress their impressionable young audience. In 2018, Jenner criticized Snapchat’s redesign, which saw Snap’s core shares drop seven percent.
While Jenner and Kardashian urged Instagram to stop copying the Chinese app, others may argue otherwise, in hopes that US social media platforms (despite many problems and censorship) could implement features that would help reduce the number of users on TikTok. Still developing. accepted by many. As a Chinese data collection tool, it is thinly veiled as a social media platform.
In a recent interview, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said: “I’m glad we took the risk – if we don’t fail occasionally, we don’t think big or brave enough. But we definitely need to take a big step back and get back together. [When] We learn a lot, then come back with a new idea or iteration. So let’s work on it.”
The change comes as users are frustrated by the changes made to the app to help them compete better with TikTok. Noting that many of these changes were not liked by users, Mosseri said, “People are fed up with the new channel design and usage data is low. So I think we need to take a big step back, get back together and understand how we want to move forward.”
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Source: Breitbart
