Instagram will need to find a way to balance the demands of a user base that wants to still celebrate social connection (including through static media), with creator demands for increased discovery and the rise of video. Combined with TikTok's ability to attract a younger demographic in terms of both creators and viewers alike, the app has become a massive force in social media.
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TikTok has figured out how to recommend posts that users welcome, while Instagram's attempt to do the same has fallen flat. People want different experiences from their social platforms - and Instagram is trying to do it all, without acknowledging that the real threat from TikTok is not the video content itself, necessarily, but rather TikTok's addictive algorithm that increases users' time spent in the app. While that may be true, Instagram has been throwing out the baby with the bathwater as it attempts to prioritize elements of TikTok in its own app. It insists its own data supports that video has been growing faster as mobile networks got faster and data became cheaper.
Plus, Instagram claims video is what people want even when they're saying otherwise. The company has brought this user backlash on itself, of course, with its continual "tests" of new UIs and its desperate admissions about how TikTok is eating its lunch, forcing it to adapt or die. This issue finally came to a head this week when celeb sisters and Instagram top creators Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian shared a petition that demanded Instagram to "stop trying to be tiktok." The day after, Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted a video addressing the concerns and said the app would temporarily roll back some of its recent changes, including the test of a full-screen TikTok-like experience and the increase in "recommended" posts. You just want to see your friends' posts. You're sick of the app's constant changes, its clutter, its ads, its force-fed recommendations, and you're not a fan of its TikTok ambitions. How do you modernize an app like Instagram, whose roots are in iconic iPhone photography, to support users' growing engagement with short-form video? If you're one of the many increasingly frustrated Instagram users, you simply wish it would not attempt this pivot at all. Users demand the TikTok-ification of Instagram must stop Do you want This Week in Apps in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here: /newsletters Top Stories