Thread: Twitter and Instagram break up

Thread: Twitter and Instagram break up

Nick Bilton at the NYT reports that Instagram removed their Twitter cards metadata from their pages. This means that to view pictures taken by users in Instagram, you'll have to visit the Instagram site. Having our pictures show up in Twitter isn't always the right thing. For example, when I link to a Flickr picture from a tweet, they take the picture from Flickr and show it directly in Twitter, without the reader having to visit the Flickr site. As a photographer, I would prefer this feature not be there, so people can comment on the pictures in Flickr, where there is no 140-character limit, and where the comments will have a relatively long

Who influenced this selection?What is this?

What the influencers are saying

  1. monkchips

    168.0 days ago

    Thread: Twitter and Instagram break up http://t.co/PAvpfyXP

  2. Dave Winer ☮

    168.0 days ago

    RT @Carnage4Life: Best commentaryon Twitter vs Instagram by @davewiner at http://t.co/PmMGga0v <= user experience as collateral damag ...

  3. Dave Winer ☮

    168.0 days ago

    Thread: Twitter and Instagram break up. http://t.co/SuJ0pPO7



Related Reading




InformationWeek encourages readers to engage in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task. However, InformationWeek moderates all comments posted to our site, and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory, offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing/SPAM. InformationWeek further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating in said activities.

Disqus Tips To upload an avatar photo, first complete your Disqus profile. | View the list of supported HTML tags you can use to style comments. | Please read our commenting policy.