Thursday 27 December 2018

Instagram's "small" test of a horizontal scrolling feed causes chaos after bug widens distribution

Instagram sent shocvk waves through the mobile world this morning after it started testing a horizontal scrolling main feed for its app. The test was supposed reach a small number of Instagram users, but tweets sent this morning sent by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri (via The Verge) revealed that the test ended up being disseminated to a much broader group of Instagram users by mistake. However, a later statement by a Facebook spokesman said that the incident was caused by a bug.

To say that the reaction from affected Instagram users was one of shock and horror would ...

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