Adam Mosseri, the pinnacle of Instagram, introduced on Twitter that Instagram is introducing a brand new function known as “Personal Story Likes,” which permits Instagram customers to love a Story with out the platform sending a direct message to the Story’s creator.
️ Personal Story Likes ️
Beginning to roll out at present, now you can ship some love by liking folks’s tales with out sending a DM.
Likes on tales are non-public and shouldn’t have counts. Moderately, they seem as hearts subsequent to folks’s handles in your Tales view sheet. pic.twitter.com/l56Rmzgnnw
— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) February 14, 2022
Earlier than the Personal Story Likes function, to reply to a Story you would solely ship a direct message or an emoji response to the creator of the Story and once you reacted to somebody’s Story, they at all times acquired a response of their DM inbox.Customers who’ve the Personal Story Likes function might now discover a brand new coronary heart icon situated between the Ship Message discipline and the paper airplane sharing button when watching somebody’s Story.
Additionally, the likes you obtain or give on tales can be non-public and will not have public counts, which implies that solely it is possible for you to to see who preferred your Story. If you wish to see who preferred your Story, you could go to the viewer sheet of that individual Story, and there you will notice a coronary heart icon subsequent to each viewer who preferred your Story.
Based on Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s thought for the Personal Story Likes function is for ‘folks to specific extra help to one another’ and in addition to ‘clear up DMs a little bit bit.’ Adam Mosseri defined that Instagram’s aim is to make DMs extra targeted on conversations between you and your folks.
