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Instagram Addresses Hiding Likes on Some Users’ Posts Instagram made a big change to their app - and users were not happy about it. On Tuesday (March 2), many Instagram users realized that the app had started to…
Instagram Confirms Bug That Accidentally Deleted Likes
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Testing a Chance to How You See Likes - We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this test, only you will be able to see the total number of likes on your posts. This test however produced a bug and way too many people on the app weren t seeing likes across the board than they originally intended. In a statement Instagram confirmed it was a bug and that it should be reverted back to normal soon. We ve been testing a new experience to hide likes on Feed posts, the official Instagram Comms account on Twitter wrote earlier. We unintentionally added more people to the test today, which was a bug we’re fixing this issue and restoring like counts to those people as soon as possible. The flagship Instagram account on Twitter quote-tweeted the message, adding So Instagram .did not mean to hide likes for everyone, adding the grimacing face emoji to conclude their post.
Many Instagram users were baffled when scrolling through the platform and seeing their number of likes on posts replaced with the phrase “and others” on Tuesday 2 March.
Within an hour of the major change, Instagram began to trend on Twitter as people were questioning if this was the permanent feature that the platform had previously announced.
Everyone: “Did Instagram just take away your likes?”
Me: “I still am waiting for chronological order to come back” pic.twitter.com/bJFCr4LB9x Katie Moseng (@katiemoseng) March 3, 2021
However, this was just a mishap that apparently occurred due to the platform unintentionally adding more people to the test which was actually a bug in the system.