Instagram starts blocking deeplinking to other social media profiles
Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down deeplinking to other social media services.
For "other types of links" that can still be clicked through to, read links to blogs, websites, YouTube pages, iTunes pages where prominent Instagram using celebrities might be touting their latest album, for example... Just don't hope to include a clickable link to another social platform service.
The move was flagged up earlier by mobile messaging platform Telegram, which tweeted the following in complaint:
For "other types of links" that can still be clicked through to, read links to blogs, websites, YouTube pages, iTunes pages where prominent Instagram using celebrities might be touting their latest album, for example... Just don't hope to include a clickable link to another social platform service.
The move was flagged up earlier by mobile messaging platform Telegram, which tweeted the following in complaint: