Like Facebook, Instagram Is About to Go Algorithmic
By Carlton Wilcoxson • March 18, 2016
Instagram wants to make your world even more customized for you and your (literal) likes, by organizing your feed in such a way that it shows you what it thinks you want to see first. In other words, the Facebook-owned company is going algorithmic. Instagram says that it will be reordering your feed to show you “the moments we believe you will care about the most” based on what the company expects your level of interest will be, the timeliness of the post, and your relationship with the person. Posts will all still be there, the company says, but they’ll no longer be displayed chronologically as they have been until now.