You Can Now Follow Hashtags on Instagram

Practise yous spend a lot of fourth dimension on Instagram? Now at that place'southward a new way to discover posts and stories you lot might like: following hashtags.

When yous visit a hashtag folio like #engineering science or #ces2018, for instance, simply tap the new "follow" push upwards top to start seeing elevation posts from that tag in your feed and some of the latest stories in your stories bar. If posts to a certain hashtag get overwhelming, you tin can easily unfollow it at whatever fourth dimension.

Take note, though: If y'all have a public account, anyone who visits your contour volition be able to see which hashtags you lot follow, just like they can scope out the people you follow. If your account is set to private, only your followers will be able to view the hashtags you follow. So, don't follow any super weird hashtags or your hugger-mugger fetishes might go public knowledge.

"Customs has been a core value at Instagram from the get-go, and at the heart of every community is a shared interest," Instagram said in a statement to PCMag. "Now we're making interests — and the communities that class around them — a major company focus. Following hashtags is our first stride."

Meanwhile, Instagram's parent visitor Facebook today introduced a new feature for its Messenger app called World Furnishings, which is similar to Snapchat's World Lenses. The feature lets y'all add 3D objects to your surround and interact with them.

"People can evidence that they dearest something via a 3D eye or point at something via an pointer," Facebook explained in an email. There's as well a "celebratory robot that plays iii types of music, an on-trend unicorn, and fun word bubbles, like 'love,' 'bae,' 'middle,' and 'miss you lot.'"

To try out Earth Effects, merely open the Messenger camera, scroll to cull from the camera furnishings, and tap one to add together it to your epitome. Facebook said it's rolling out this characteristic globally, starting today.

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