Battle of the social media companies is ongoing. Adrian Covert of Cnnmoney.com reports “Instagram voluntarily pulled the plug on its Twitter
photo integration Wednesday”. It means before Wednesday Instagram photos would
“appear inline with the tweet” and Instagram claims the feature will no longer
appear. The article reports the initial assumption was that Twitter made the
move against Instagram. However, Kevin Systrom, Instagram founder, has taken
responsibility and emailed a statement to CNN Money (statement in the
article) basically stating that due to Instagram’s bigger web presence and
capabilities, it doesn’t need Twitter anymore and wants people to look back to
Instagram for more features.
With Facebook having purchased Instagram and Instagram making this move,
this heats up the social media back-and-forth between Facebook, Instagram and
Twitter. However, I’ve been able to see Instagram photos on my Twitter
timeline; yet again, I use apps such as Tweetcaster from my phone and Tweetdeck
from my mac. I’m not sure the effect is complete from the official Twitter app
or website. The article reports the Instagram move “means Twitter users have to
make one extra click to view an image” – not much of an inconvenience unless
one follows many people with great Instagram profiles.
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