{"id":159746,"date":"2016-03-29T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159746"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T08:22:00","slug":"no-instagram-algorithm-apocalypse-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/159746-no-instagram-algorithm-apocalypse-today.html","title":{"rendered":"No Instagram algorithm apocalypse today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram was flooded yesterday with requests that followers turn on post notifications, under the tag <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/turnmeon\/\" target=\"_blank\">#TurnMeOn<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Turning on post notifications means you will receive an alert when someone you follow posts\u00a0a new image to the social network.<\/p>\n<p>The #TurnMeOn campaign started when a rumour stating that\u00a0Instagram would change the way it displays new posts was circulated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/158727-instagram-changing-feed-to-prioritize-important-photos.html\"><strong>Instagram announced the coming change to its algorithm<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in March, but did not provide a timeline other than \u201cin the coming months\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The image sharing service has not confirmed any details about the algorithm it will use to organise timelines, but told\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/03\/28\/instagram-influencers-are-suddenly-freaking-out-over-the-looming-algorithm-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">Re\/code that the changes are not happening now as<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/03\/28\/instagram-influencers-are-suddenly-freaking-out-over-the-looming-algorithm-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"> claimed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not being implemented. We still have weeks, or even months, of testing to go. Currently, the test groups are very small. When we roll it out broadly, we will definitely let the community know,&#8221; said Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>An example of what a #TurnMeOn post looks like is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Instagram-TurnMeOn.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159780 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Instagram-TurnMeOn.jpg\" alt=\"Instagram #TurnMeOn\" width=\"599\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Instagram-TurnMeOn.jpg 599w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Instagram-TurnMeOn-337x430.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Instagram news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/159179-pope-francis-launches-instagram-account.html\"><strong>Pope Francis launches Instagram account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/158727-instagram-changing-feed-to-prioritize-important-photos.html\"><strong>Instagram changing feed to prioritize important photos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/145041-worlds-most-popular-instagrammers.html\"><strong>World\u2019s most popular Instagrammers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/138852-facebook-and-instagram-south-african-user-numbers.html\"><strong>Facebook and Instagram \u2013 South African user numbers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram users were worried about how the service was going to change the way it displayed new posts &#8211; here&#8217;s what is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,10424],"class_list":["post-159746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159802,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159746\/revisions\/159802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}