Instagram Link Stickers which help users include hyperlinks in Stories in the form of stickers, will now be available to use for everyone on the popular photo-sharing platform. Instagram announced the news via Twitter on 27th October 2021.
As Instagram starts testing Link Stickers in June, but until now the feature has been limit to verified accounts or accounts with a large number of followers.
Link Stickers are useful for anyone from businesses linking out to their products to activists linking out to external resources.
But Instagram states that anyone can benefit from link sharing to engage with their followers.
It also said that accounts repeatedly sharing misinformation or hate speech will lose access.
When Instagram announce the Link Stickers feature in June, then company stress that they’re only meant for Stories posts and said it had no plans to bring them to the main Instagram feed or other parts of the app.
The Link Stickers feature has now entirely replace “swipe up,” which was how Instagram users could previously link out to external webpages from their Stories, and which the platform discontinue in August.
Link Stickers are now more widely available than swipe up ever was, when the old feature was only available to verified accounts with more than 10,000 followers.
How to Add a Link Sticker on Instagram Stories?
Follow These Steps :
- After uploading content to create a new Story.
- Go into the sticker tool from the top navigation bar.
- Enter the URL you wish to share.
- The Link Sticker will now be create.
- Place and resize the Link Sticker as desire on your Story.
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