Instagram is testing a new feature that could considerably improve the way you manage users, both those you follow and those you would like to follow. Is about Groups, a feature similar to the lists that can already be enjoyed in other applications. The great advantage is that, in addition to being created manually, they would also be generated automatically.
Instagram is already testing groups, or should we say lists?
No confirmation yet, it seems that one of the next great innovations of Instagram would be the groups. Sort of or pretty much the same as Twitter lists or other apps. A way to group users in order to improve management and, above all, to know what you are going to find in a more orderly way.
For example, in order not to miss anything from those who are closest (friends), from those who talk about technology, travel, fashion, food, decoration,... here each one chooses how to group them and based on what criteria. However, the most interesting would be to some extent the groups that would be generated automatically.
Instagram is testing to “group the accounts you follow to make them easier to manage”, such as:
"Least Interacted With" and "Most Shown in Feed" which are counted in the last 90 days pic.twitter.com/REykEoMqu5
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 19, 2019
These groups, the ones that have been seen so far, would group users with whom we have had the least interaction and those who are shown the most in the feed. These two groups would give visibility to those users or accounts that, due to little or a lot of activity, perhaps we would be interested in unfollowing or quite the opposite.
To generate these automatic groups, we take into account the data collected during the last 90 days. Thus, depending on the interaction, activity, etc... the groups are being made which, as Jane Manchun has published, could be very useful.
It is true that in applications like Twitter, lists have never been used very well. Whoever writes these lines is something that has been pending for a long time. Firstly, to better filter certain accounts, and secondly, because they can also be useful to eliminate noise from the main timeline and only go to consult them when you decide. That awareness when going to see what a certain account has published or not is what could make you decide or not to follow it and always have it in the main feed.
Without much more information on all the possibilities and options that it would offer, we will have to wait for the final version where this new option is added. So we could assess whether or not Instagram Groups will be useful on a day-to-day basis, if it will be forgotten like Twitter lists or if, on the contrary, they were the solution that many expected and still did not know what it would be to improve their user experience. in the social network.