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Instagram ranks Feed, Stories, Explore and Reels with separate systems, each weighing signals such as your own activity and a post's popularity in its own order.
Which signal comes firstexperience
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One ranking per surfaceprose
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Instagram says it has no single algorithm: Feed, Stories, Explore and Reels each use their own, tailored to how people use that part of the app, and rank things differently . Stories come from accounts a person follows,…
Signals and predictionsprose
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Instagram calls its inputs signals and says there are thousands, from when a post was shared to how often a person likes videos . From them it makes roughly a dozen predictions of how a person will interact; in Feed the…
What changed from 2021 to 2023prose
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Instagram began in 2010 as a single stream of photos in chronological order, and by 2016 people were missing 70% of their Feed posts, which led it to rank Feed . Its 2021 explanation gave one order for Feed and Stories,…
Feed signal order, 2021 and 2023figure
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The log
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