Instagram’s Testing a New ‘Top 3’ Sticker for Stories

Meta’s lack of inventive growth continues to stretch to new ranges, with the corporate taking extra inspiration from the unique social community because it seeks to immediate new types of engagement.

As you possibly can see in these photographs, posted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is at present testing a brand new ‘Top 3’ sticker option for Stories, which might allow individuals to focus on their prime 3 favourite accounts, tracks, locations, and so on.

Which instantly jogged my memory of this:

Sure, for these sufficiently old to recollect, that is the infamous MySpace ‘Top 8’, which turned some extent of competition for a lot of customers in deciding on your favourite pals to show in your prime itemizing.

The Top 8 was a trigger for a lot angst and argument – and now, a complete new era will get to expertise the identical, once they begin posting their prime 3 pals on IG, and angering everybody who’s not included within the showcase.

Which ought to spark engagement, which might be what Meta desires, and once more – it’s fascinating to see Zuck and Co. proceed to mine present and former traits for brand spanking new inspiration and choices.

I imply, it’s not precisely the identical, and it’s a fairly primary choice. However nonetheless, you possibly can see it resulting in disputes amongst teen customers, which may have dad and mom recalling the times of Tom and his MySpace empire.

It was one of the best of instances, it was the worst of instances. And slowly, little by little, by means of songs on profiles, Top 3 shows – slowly, one of the best/worst components of MySpace are progressively coming again.

All the pieces previous is new once more, even when the previous stuff wasn’t that nice.

No phrase from IG as as to if this can truly be examined, or it’s simply an inner prototype at this stage.