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Instagram Previews come back to Twitter after 9 years

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Instagram Previews have resurfaced on Twitter, which means that when anyone shares an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of that post will appear — as is the case with previews of websites in general.

Instagram Previews were discontinued in 2012 after the then photo-sharing platform was acquired by Meta (formerly Facebook).

Instagram Previews come back to Twitter after 9 years

The feature is rolling out on Android, iOS and web versions of Twitter, and people should start seeing them in the following weeks.

The nine-year-old feud between the two social media giants seems to have ended with this change, which brings back previews. Earlier, Twitter had also removed a feature that let people find those they follow on Instagram.

Last month, Instagram rolled out the Collabs feature for all creators worldwide. This will allow creators to co-author posts and reels and also share the engagement.

Following the major outage faced by the Meta-owned companies, including Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, the platform also announced a new feature that’ll directly notify people about service outages or technical issues using the in-app Activity feed section.

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