Instagram has been reaching to priority with every passing day. After the data breach of Google+, facebook people are more turning towards Instagram. However, this year Instagram two major changes in the month of September it has released the shopping option through Instagram and earlier this month Instagram decided to crackdown and ban the fake followers, acccounts, likes, shares, and comments. It was this Monday when Instagram made an announcement that it would crack down all those users who are doing all the illegal and inauthentic activities to increase their original account popularity and the two-factor authentication. The situation was very hard for the self-proclaimed social media marketing forum “Blackhat” went into crisis. On the contrary, it made the shoppers and the e-commerce companies happy allowing them to have a shopping cart in their Instagram business page.
We in this article will explain you everything in details about both the two major changes that Instagram brought this year.
INSTAGRAM TO CRACKDOWN FAKE USERS
Instagram has taken a very tough decision by implementing the two-factor authentication which helps to remove all the accounts which usually use the third party apps to increase their popularity and grow the followers in their Instagram accounts. However, people come to Instagram to have a real experience with genuine interactions. Starting from Monday Instagram has started removing all the illegal comments, likes, shares using the third party application. Instagram has built a tool which identifies these type of accounts that uses the third party application to remove these fake followers and accounts then provide followers to their actual and real page than a fake one.
Instagram mentioned that this type of bogus accounts, likes, shares, comments are very harmful to the community and don’t abide by the Instagram guidelines and terms and uses. It also said that regular usage of the fake followers and accounts like this or a huge usage like this may lead to permanently removing the followers account from the social media site. Till Tuesday several threads were affected by this Instagram’s crackdown of the fake users and a huge chaos is being created among a lot of renowned and big names.
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Instagram is even discouraging all the followers and accounts from ever giving the users ID or login ID and all important details in any of the ways to anyone who wants to know from you because this may lead to your account being hacked and it can be used to spam other people where you will not know but someone must be using it. If you see that your followers in the Instagram account are decreased then it is not because you have offended someone instead all those users were fake and Instagram has removed them.
The restoring force for policy enforcement comes in the midst of the proceeding with the risk of foreign deception crusades on Facebook and Instagram intended to captivate communities and impact the election in the U.S. furthermore, abroad. In the meantime, Facebook has said that unauthenticated accounts are the roots to all these types of illegal activities even Facebook faced data breaching and has removed 745 million unauthenticated accounts in the last few months. All these bogus accounts should be caught and removed so that it can’t misuse someone else accounts. Initially, Instagram is removing the fake accounts since 2014 but it was the first time when it announced about this step publicly.
There are a lot of bots which are available in the online medium which helps in growing the Instagram follower for a person that takes $10 to $50 per month for doing this. The applications like Archie, InstaRocketProX, and Boost these apps usually promise to not violating the terms and policies of the Instagram however it does violate. The company name Devumi is well known between the celebrities because a lot of celebrities have approached this company for buying fake followers and accounts for them on Twitter.
INSTAGRAM NEW FEATURES
Not just removing the fake followers and accounts Instagram even launched a new feature which will help immensely all the brands. This allows the followers to have a shopping experience in the Instagram Ad of that brand. It made the shopping experience for the people very easy, you can shop while you are scrolling down on Instagram. If you like a product on Instagram then you can know more about that product on Instagram you don’t have to go somewhere else and search for it.
Instagram has announced three ways to discover new products for shopping from your favorite brands’ and then keep a track of all these clothes in one place which you can see when required. So, we are summing up all the new features Instagram updates below:
Save the collection
When you see your favorite thing in your loved brand then you can save it now in your shopping collection to avail it later. You have to tap on the product tag you will get to see the price of the product all on that picture. Then you have to go in a product by the arrow beside the Price tag.
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When you get inside the product you can see various pictures of the product similar to that you view in the e-commerce site. Below the picture, in the right corner you will find the tag if you click on that button then your product will be saved in your collection which you can review later.
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Below the product, you can find the description of the product and the related product of the same type which you are looking.
Business profile shopping
Whenever you go to the account or the business profile of the brand then you can find all the product images and advanced options such as shop email address and direction. Then you have to click on the shop option when you click on it you will be redirected to a page which will have all the products and the details of it that the brand is selling.
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You can select any product which you like just like similar the above points you can save it and can buy it later or directly you can go the website and make a purchase. Not only the shop you can even avail the email id and direction for the store which makes the work of the people very easy and can we find the store without any confusion.
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Feed videos Shopping
You read it right you can even shop your favorite item from the Video feeds that your brand posts on Instagram. When you see the video from any brand first click on follow and then tap on the shopping bag icon to reveal the details and price of all the items present in the video. Then you can know more about it.
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These are some of the important features that Instagram incorporated this year and made the task of the brand very easy and even people can get those items which they love it. However, on the other side, it even took a very tough and good decision to protect the safety of the users and abide by the Rules and regulation which it established by removing all the fake accounts, comments, likes, and share.
We hope that Instagram in future will bring some more strict laws against the spammers and new features to make users happy.
