Instagram May Soon Let You Tag Friends in Videos

Instagram introduced the photo-tagging feature as far back as in 2013, but now the Facebook-owned social media platform is believed to exist testing the verbal same functionality in video posts as well. According to TechCrunch, which says information technology has confirmed the information with the company, the video-tagging feature will work similarly to the existing one for photos, but with an important difference.

Because of the inherent difficulty in accurately overlaying text on moving subjects, Instagram is reportedly considering adding a push which will display the listing of tagged accounts separately. It's not immediately articulate, still, whether such videos will too appear on the profiles of the tagged users similar they do for photos.

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Instagram didn't reveal much nearly the upcoming characteristic, but said that information technology is simply being tested with a "minor percentage" of users for now. In that location's no word on when the company plans on expanding the test to a wider user base, and certainly no info nigh when it expects to curlicue out the feature to all users globally.

It'south worth noting here that the feature is only existence tested on Instagram mobile apps for at present, and is unavailable on the web client. In that location's no clarification on whether the company plans to innovate the feature on the website at some stage, of if information technology will remain app-exclusive in the foreseeable hereafter.

Instagram has been releasing tons of new features in contempo times to stay ahead of rivals such as Snapchat on the one hand and YouTube on another with IGTV. Towards that end, information technology copied the former's 'Stories' feature a couple of years ago, and rolled out IGTV recently in a bid to get a chunk out of YouTube's massive market-share.