Share photos via Instagram on Twitter it will be more and more difficult, until perhaps it will no longer be possible. What is happening?
For a few hours now, those who use Instagram, conveying the photos via Twitter, you will have noticed some anomalies: the images, in fact, no longer appear as they used to.
Now some photos are no longer perfectly centered like they were a few days ago, so the situation has effectively returned to almost the same as at the beginning of Instagram.
This is not a technical problem or a temporary anomaly: this is, apparently, the new course that the use of the photography app will take, if used for the Share on Twitter.
The head staff of Instagram has in fact decided to abandon the Twitter Cards, which is the technical trick that up until now has allowed images to be perfectly centered for correct viewing on Twitter.
It is impossible not to think that this decision was made due to the fact that Instagram is now owned by Facebook and so this would seem to be a move aimed at not encouraging direct competition, so to speak.
However, Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, has broken these easy associations of ideas.
The CEO was keen to point out that the decision to no longer use Twitter Cards was his personal choice, not because Facebook owns Instagram.
The official reason is that for the company it is more appropriate or better to say preferable that the images are shared and commented on where they originate – therefore Instagram – rather than on any other platform.
It certainly sounds a bit strange to want to try to “confine” an app created for sharing and mobility to a unique and proprietary dimension.
However, it is now well known that even Twitter is preparing its own photo filters to be applied to images to be uploaded to the social network, so very soon there could be a "home" solution for members who do not want to give up sharing images.
It won't be Was it precisely this move that Instagram did not appreciate? The doubt arises.
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