Instagram is ditching chronological order so you don’t miss the photos you care about

Instagram is announcing a subtle but important tweak to its platform today: photos will no longer be sorted in purely chronological order. Basically, the app will now behave a bit more like parent company Facebook, organizing your feed based on an algorithm that decides what’s most relevant to you, instead of simply what’s most recent: The order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting and the timeliness of the post. As we begin, we’re focusing on optimizing the order — all the posts…
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