You should be aware that beginning today, your Instagram photos won’t appear in your followers’ Twitter feeds in the same way. The two social media tools are in a battle that results in big changes for end users – the very people you are trying to reach with your photos and strategic communications.
I’ll offer tips and best practices for how your organization or business can work around this change as things shake out in the next few days, but in case you wonder what this is all about and you want to find out more, here are a few links to the news that explains what is happening:
- Twitter gets little sympathy over Instagram’s pulled photos – SocialTimes
- Instagram photo-rendering issue – Twitter
- Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ but calls changes ‘really confusing’ to users – The Verge
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