{"id":276641,"date":"2018-09-21T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=276641"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T07:12:35","slug":"instagram-testing-a-new-re-sharing-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/276641-instagram-testing-a-new-re-sharing-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram testing a new re-sharing feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is testing a new feature which will allow users to re-share posts from other accounts to their own feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/20\/17884170\/instagram-regram-native-reposting-sharing-feed-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Enabling re-sharing has been resisted by company executives, but could help to drive traffic on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, this feature is known as &#8220;seamless sharing&#8221;, and will add a new &#8220;share to feed&#8221; option in the settings menu for individual posts.<\/p>\n<p>In the testing phase, posts can be re-shared at least twice &#8211; with re-shared posts appearing underneath the name and photo of the user who shared it.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the feature is still early in development and there is no indication on whether it will launch.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram did not respond to The Verge when asked for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/274309-instagram-working-on-standalone-shopping-app-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Instagram working on standalone shopping app \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is testing a new feature which will allow users to re-share posts from other accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10424,53999,54001],"class_list":["post-276641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-instagram","tag-resharing-feature","tag-seamless-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276641"}],"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=276641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276653,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276641\/revisions\/276653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}