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Instagram Adds New Messaging Features, Including Quick Replies, Music Sharing and New Chat Themes

With messaging becoming a bigger part of the Instagram experience, the Meta-owned app has today announced a raft of messaging upgrades, including quick sharing, music previews, new chat themes and more.
First off, Instagram’s adding a new ‘reply while you browse’ option, which will enable users to reply to a message in-stream, without having to tap through to their DM inbox.
You can see this new option in the first frame above, with an incoming DM appearing in a new drop-down panel, and the user then able to reply, then and there, without having to tap through to their Direct inbox.
As you can see in the second image, Instagram’s also adding a new quick send option, which will highlight your closest friends when you tap and hold the share button on a post, again making it easier to send a DM without disrupting your browsing experience.
And as per the last frame, Instagram’s also adding new online indicators in your DM panel.
“At the top of your inbox, you can see who’s free to chat at that moment, helping you find serendipitous opportunities to connect with friends.”
That could be a good way to encourage more engagement in the app, which could get more people sending more Direct DMs.
Instagram’s also adding new chat themes, along with its expanded messaging control options (@silent) and polls within your group chats.

The new @silent control was announced on Messenger earlier this week, along with a range of other shortcuts that you can use to activate various Messenger features. Only the @silent operator has made its way across to Instagram as yet (and only in the US, due to EU privacy restrictions), but it does seem that, eventually, more of these shortcut controls will make their way across to Meta’s other messaging apps.
And as you can see in the last frame above, Instagram’s also adding new music sharing in your DMs.
“Enabled by integrations with Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify coming soon, you can now share a 30-second preview of that song you just can’t get out of your head, and your friends can listen directly from the chat window.”

That could be a handy way to share the latest tracks with friends, and with music discovery becoming a bigger element within the social media experience (led by TikTok), it could help Instagram integrate more music engagement in the app.
Some of these features have been in testing at different times, so you may have seen them in the app previously. But now, they’ll be made available to all users (pending EU restrictions), which will provide a range of new considerations for Direct usage in the app.
As noted, DM usage has become a staple of Instagram engagement for many, and with messaging, in general, becoming a more prominent usage option, it makes sense for IG to lean into such trends, and facilitate more Direct engagement.
Eventually, as per Meta’s grand messaging integration plan, all of these features will also be integrated with WhatsApp and Messenger too, enabling you to send messages to any of your contacts in each app, and bringing many of these same functionalities to Meta’s other messaging platforms.
As such, every messaging upgrade in any Meta-owned app should be viewed as a precursor for that next stage, when messaging is enabled on a broader, more inclusive scale, providing more capacity to connect and engage, in a wider range of ways.
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How to Train ChatGPT to Write in Your Brand’s Tone of Voice [Infographic]
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Are you looking for ways to improve your ChatGPT output? Want to train it to write in a more unique tone of voice, in order to better suit your branding?
The Creative Marketer shares his ChatGPT prompt tips in this infographic. To enact these, add “Write like [INSERT CHARACTER]” at the start of your ChatGPT instructions.
TCM breaks things down into the following categories:
- Innocent
- Sage
- Explorer
- Ruler
- Creator
- Caregiver
- Lover
- Hero
- Everyman
- Magician
- Jester
- Outlaw
Check out the infographic for more information.
A version of this post was first published on the Red Website Design blog.
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Elon Musk reinstates far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, by company owner Elon Musk – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Joe Buglewicz
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, on Sunday reinstated far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the social media platform, a year after vowing never to let him return.
Jones, who claimed that a December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that killed 20 children and six educators was a hoax, was banned from the platform — then still known as Twitter — in 2018 for violating its “abusive behavior policy.”
He was also sued by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting and ordered by a judge in the case to pay up more than a billion dollars in damages last year.
Musk had himself promised never to let the Infowars host back on the social media platform, which he bought last year for $44 billion.
But following a poll Musk conducted on X asking whether Jones should be reinstated, to which some two million users responded, he flipped that decision.
“I vehemently disagree with what he said about Sandy Hook, but are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?” the SpaceX founder said on X.
But Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action group which pushes for tighter gun laws, said that “defamation is not free speech.”
Musk’s decision comes the same week that the Sandy Hook families commemorate the 11th anniversary of the December 14 shooting, which Jones alleged was staged to allow the government to crack down on gun rights.
Jones’ followers harassed the bereaved families for years, accusing parents of murdered children of being “crisis actors” whose children had never existed.
It also came a week after Musk had responded to advertisers pulling out of X because of far-right posts and hate speech, including an apparent endorsement by Musk himself of an anti-Semitic tweet.
Asked whether he would respond to the advertising exodus, Musk said in an interview with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin that the advertisers could “go f*** yourself.”
Jones, who has a million followers on X, returned to the site with his first post re-tweeting Andrew Tate, the controversial former kickboxer facing rape and human trafficking charges in Romania, in which he hailed Jones’ “triumphant return”
US media reported that as of Sunday, the account of Jones’ controversial show Infowars was still banned.
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Instagram Launches New ‘Close Friends Only’ Podcast to Showcase Celebrity Users

Not sure if this will be a valuable addition, or another stream that’ll fade out pretty quick, as Meta stops paying attention to it.
Today, Instagram has launched a new podcast called “Close Friends Only”, which it says will present “the latest on culture – from memes and icks, to fashion and friendship – all from your favorite celebrities.”
And they’ve gone big out of the gate, with the first episode featuring Ice Spice in conversation with Doja Cat.
The conversation sees the two stars discuss their favorite memes, their favorite animals, celebrity crushes, experiences in flirting on IG, their juiciest DMs, and more.
Which will no doubt get a heap of attention, and will help make Instagram a bigger focus for youngsters seeking to replicate their idols. But in terms of practical advice or tips, yeah, there might not be a heap there.
But it could be worth tuning in anyway, in order to get the lowdown on the latest trends, from some of the people that are leading the way on cultural shifts.
But then again, as noted, it’ll be interesting to see how IG follows this first episode up, and whether they keep running regular episodes of the podcast with more celebrities.
Either way, it’s an interesting promotional vehicle for IG, especially given that it’s focusing on musicians, as TikTok becomes an even more critical platform for music promotion.
Maybe, then, this will be Instagram’s counter to that, but again, we’ll have to wait and see whether more episodes arrive.
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