Instagram would have tested the Q & A feature in Stories – BGR

Another day, another report of a new feature will soon be available on the Instagram application, which has recently experienced the arrival of IGTV, news about Lite versions of the application, a reviewed Explore tab and the ability to add a soundtrack for Instagram Stories. Next step: The social photo sharing network would test the ability for users to ask questions to their subscribers in Stories.

Android Police became aware of the possible addition of Q & A by a reader of a test deployment. In the screen capture below, you can see the user asking a subscriber specific question, to which it is possible to answer directly in the text box, as opposed to the current method of answering the question. Instagram stories of a user. messages.

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If this launches soon, it will be another in a series of great moves by Instagram recently that have included a focus on Instagram Stories booster, which at 400 million # Users is already twice as big as Snapchat.

Giving users the ability to add music to Instagram Stories means you can now spice up your photos and videos with 15-second clips of popular songs. The questions and answers on Instagram Stories would be an opportunity to further use Stories to engage – and stick to it. The company owned by Facebook knows, of course, that stories are key to the number of people who interact more and more with the app, thanks to this giving you a place to publish ephemera that you would not necessarily want to transform in a post that appears in your

C is why Instagram would also test a way to keep Stories at the center of the application.

The Verge spotted Instagram by testing a Stories panel that stays in place as you scroll. bottom of your stream, compared to its current static position at the top of the app (with stories of your friends showing between posts after scrolling down). If this materializes, it would be another new notification of all kinds in the application, as well as bright orange IGTV notifications announcing new content.

Instagram, it should be noted, has not confirmed the following Stories panel With the frenetic pace of developing new features – with, yes, borrow freely from the competition – it's not difficult to see why Instagram quickly surpbaded the big blue application in the Facebook realm in terms of popularity and cultural cachet. As we reported earlier, the data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence show Instagram with a valuation of $ 100 billion eye-popping. The constant rollout of new features, like some of the newer ones, including the possibility of Q & As in Stories, is another reminder – not necessary – that the company will continue to work aggressively to maintain the gram of users .