Instagram begins testing ‘reposts’

Instagram users would reshare posts onto their feeds. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

If you can believe it, Instagram is testing a new feature that mimics other social networks. TechCrunch reports Instagram confirmed tests of reposts" to bring someone else's content onto your own timeline. It's similar to Twitter's retweets or the kind of reshares that are common on Tumblr and Facebook and are also in testing on TikTok.

TechCrunch writes the repost" feature was spotted by Matt Navarra, a social media consultant who posted images in a Twitter thread on Wednesday. However, Alessandro Paluzzi noticed it in development back in May, showing Instagram has been working on it for a while.

This is what the new instagram repost feature intro screen looks like

h/t @alex193a pic.twitter.com/ldOX5PO4Eg

- Matt Navarra...

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