{"id":866,"date":"2025-06-17T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-is-running-another-test-of-a-repost-feature\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:00:48","slug":"instagram-is-running-another-test-of-a-repost-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-is-running-another-test-of-a-repost-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is running another test of a repost feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Instagram is testing a new repost feature. <em>TechCrunch<\/em> reported that social media network is currently running a test that gives users the opportunity to repost content. The current feature test is focused on resharing a post, the content that appears in a user&rsquo;s feed, as a new post. The platform does already offer the ability to share a post to someone&rsquo;s Story, but this post-to-post repost would be a new addition to the available interactions. A rep from Meta confirmed that the tests are happening, but declined to add any additional comments.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram did a very similar test of a very similar feature in 2022 and also trialed a repost button all the way back in 2017. Considering the company has made multiple attempts at an idea that&rsquo;s already well-established on other social networks, it seems surprising that the platform would once again revisit this idea. Between posts, Stories, Reels and DMs, Instagram already has a lot of unique content types. On the one hand, there are plenty of ways to share and resurface content, either your own or another account&rsquo;s to the feed. On the other hand, though, having different rules about what material can be shared to which format can put users in confusing situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, June 16, 2025, 6:22PM ET:<\/strong> Added response from Meta representative confirming the feature test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Instagram is running another test of a repost feature<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is testing a new repost feature. TechCrunch reported that social media network is currently running a test that gives users the opportunity to repost content. The current feature test is focused on resharing a post, the content that appears in a user&rsquo;s feed, as a new post. The platform does already offer the ability&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-is-running-another-test-of-a-repost-feature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Instagram is running another test of a repost feature&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}