News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off.

Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by eigenvector on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:01AM (#6467886)
Instagram is also stabbing itself by making it difficult to share an Instagram photo's URL with people outside of the service. Instagram for Android does not support the OS's native 'share' functionality (an option to copy a URL to the clipboard was recently added but is hidden behind an overflow menu). I'd like to drive traffic to their service by sharing a URL with friends but Instagram deliberately makes this difficult.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by w1ntermute on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:14AM (#6467920)
I don't even understand the point of Instagram these days. You can just take a picture with the default camera app, apply a filter from within it, and then tweet it using Twitter's image hosting service.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by rbreve on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:54AM (#6468010)
Instagram is not about the filters, its about the social network, I follow all my favorite artists there
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by film42 on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:15AM (#6467926)
I believe it's the same reason why people are sticking with facebook--their friends are there.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by w1ntermute on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:17AM (#6467929)
If your friends are on Instagram, aren't they also already on Twitter?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by next89 on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:24AM (#6467949)
Nope, at least not in my case. I'd say that only 20-30% of the people I follow on Instagram (mostly Facebook friends) are on Twitter.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by jjb123 on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:08AM (#6468189)
very few of my friends actively use twitter, it feels like there was a six month window there when many of them did, then instagram came onto the scene. It kind of felt like both services became mainstream (my friend base) at about the same time.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by coryl on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:16AM (#6467928)
The user experience isn't as good with the default camera + filter, and upload process.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by alecsmart1 on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:22AM (#6467943)
I agree. The new iOS7 has built in filters when using the default camera app. It was only a matter of time before others caught up with it. Not that Instragram offers any mind shattering feature.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off by raverbashing on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:54AM (#6468300)
There's also a useful side effect to Instagram.

It resizes and crops the picture, making it much smaller for uploads.

(Their resize filter is bad though)

[ Parent | on HN ]