The Daily Dose

Months back, Instagram switched its reverse-chronological timeline to an algorithm that sorted posts it thought you wanted to see, much like Facebook’s. Now, it’s taking the Facebook comparison a step further by actually including actual Facebook data in its algorithm in an effort to measure engagement, and thus algorithmic placement on your timeline. Instagram, a 2012 Facebook acquisition, is using Facebook’s data in order to give its new ‘Stories’ feature a fighting chance, even though Snapchat uses a simple reverse-chronological order timeline, much like Instagram used to. Of course, Snapchat users might soon have their own algorithm to worry about, so…

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