Capital Wired

Keeps You Updated

Thursday, April 15, 2021
Log in
  • Headlines
  • Business
  • Health
  • Tech & Science
  • Sports
  • World
  • US
  • Latest News
    • How To Make Your Own Home-Brewed Morphine
    • Using Mouthwash Too Often Puts You at Risk of Obesity and Diabetes
    • Walmart to Solve its Supply Chain Issues and Further Cut Down on Costs
    • The World’s Most Expensive Christmas Decorations
    • Netflix Hopes to Balance Data Limit With Great Video Quality
    • Joji Morishita says Japan Will Resume Whaling
    • The Most Beloved Plastic Surgeries Among Americans
    • Skype for Web Allows Non-Users to Take Part In Its Online Chats

Pages

  • About Capital Wired
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Reprint & Licensing
  • Staff
  • Terms of Use

Recent Posts

  • Here’s Why Your Brain Keeps Worrying about Everything June 29, 2018
  • Don’t Throw That Sunscreen after Summer Is Up June 29, 2018
  • Analysts: Currency War between U.S. and China Might Be Looming June 28, 2018
  • Starbucks Rival The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Opening 100 Shops June 27, 2018
  • Study Finds We Are Alone in the Universe June 26, 2018
  • Restaurant Owner Not Sorry for Booting Sarah Sanders June 26, 2018
  • Beware of the Hidden Salt in Your Food! June 25, 2018

Instagram Blocks Deep Linking to Snapchat and Telegram

March 4, 2016 By Chen Lai Leave a Comment

Email, RSS Follow

instagramInstagram, the Facebook-owned image platform, is closing down the ‘add me’ deep links for other public networks within its applications. Previously, its customers were allowed to post ‘add me’ or ’follow me’ web links in the site area within their personal page.

These were directly connecting them to other accounts they had created on public services’ applications. Now, you cannot type links to Snapchat and Telegram accounts anymore and Instagram displays a message saying that such third-party connections are not supported by its platform.

A spokesperson for Instagram said that the change was indeed implemented, due to the attempts made by many people to take advantage of the website’s huge online reach. This was an exceptional use-case, but not in the way in which this system was designed, so other kinds of hyperlinks are still permitted.

These other kinds of links which are allowed to be inserted include weblogs, sites, YouTube videos, iTunes accounts where popular Instagram using superstars might be offering their newest record, for instance. Just do not try to add a clickable hyperlink to gather followers for Snapchat and Telegram profiles.

It is uncertain the number of Instagram customers that is taking advantage of these ‘add me’ deep links to Snapchat or Telegram from their Instagram pages. For the celebrities involved in it, sending people to a labeled web page seems a more conventional self-promotional strategy and is not affected by this block.

In an email to tech media, Telegram’s creator Pavel Durov has defined the idea as being clearly harmful for his website, even if the deep linking prevention does also have a negative impact on competing texting application Snapchat, as mentioned above.

Also, he revealed that deep linking to other public networks, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, VK, Facebook and Periscope, is still working. So it seems there is some particular discrimination against certain platforms.

Last weeks, Telegram said that it reached 100 million active customers per month, so it was able to gain some strength in this battle. However, Facebook too might close down deep linking and stop one major opportunity where utilization of the competing services could thrive.

That said, it is uncertain what percentage of Telegram’s monthly users are actually crawlers, which is a well-known and widely copied function on the system. This strategy lets third party designers to use the website’s API to make software profiles that offer computerized services, like providing images in reply to keywords.

Image source: Inspiredworlds

Email, RSS Follow

Chen Lai

Chen Lai

With over 6 years of experience in writing news about various topics, able and efficient to write news related to the health, business and technology market. Chen Lai can be reached at [email protected]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: deep linking android, deep linking apps, deep linking facebook, deep linking ios, deep linking seo, deep linking service, deep linking youtube

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Recent Articles

dc logo on black galaxy background

Ava DuVernay to Direct DC’s New Gods Adaptation

March 16, 2018 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

leonardo davinci's signature in black

Is DaVinci’s Record Breaking Painting Authentic?

November 20, 2017 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

stephen hawking

Stephen Hawking Makes Gloomy Prediction For Earth In A 100 Years

May 7, 2017 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

"Dwayne Johnson not dead"

Dwayne Johnson Died this Week or Not

January 19, 2016 By Jason Leathers 3 Comments

There Are At Least Three More Seasons of Game of Thrones To Go

July 31, 2015 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

Homelessness Soars in L.A., Officials Pledge to House Everybody by 2016

May 12, 2015 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

FBI Releases National Report on Slain Police Officers, Figures are Alarming

May 12, 2015 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

New York Nuclear Plant Partially Shut Down due to Hudson Oil Slick

May 11, 2015 By Jason Leathers 2 Comments

Obama Draws Heat from Democrats over Asia Trade Deal

May 9, 2015 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

Florida Governor Changes Stance on Obamacare Once More, Budget on Hold

May 9, 2015 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

Secret Service to add an Extra Layer of Spikes to White House Fence

May 8, 2015 By Chen Lai Leave a Comment

Police Arrested Suspect in death of Student who tried to Sell Car on Craigslist

May 8, 2015 By Deborah Nielsen 1 Comment

AccuWeather.com: 2015 Atlantic Tropical Storm Season is Officially Open

May 7, 2015 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

Illinois Student Found Dead after Trying to Sell his Car on Craigslist

May 7, 2015 By Deborah Nielsen 2 Comments

Related Articles

  • ET movie

    Study Finds We Are Alone in the Universe

    Jun 26, 2018
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders

    Restaurant Owner Not Sorry for Booting Sarah Sanders

    Jun 26, 2018
  • New Type of Photosynthesis Spotted in Blue-Green Algae

    Jun 20, 2018
  • Tropical fish and coral reef

    Coral Reefs Save Us from Flooding (Study)

    Jun 14, 2018
  • NASA astronaut on the moon

    NASA Astronauts Warmed Up the Moon in the 1970s

    Jun 12, 2018
  • Antarctic landscape

    Antarctica Experiencing Routine Earthquakes Like Any Other Continent

    Jun 5, 2018
  • SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch

    SpaceX Launches Powerful Communications Satellite into Orbit

    Jun 5, 2018
  • Planet Pluto

    Scientists Have New Theory About Pluto’s Formation

    May 30, 2018
  • The Milky Way

    NASA Uses Lasers to Re-Create Coldest Spot in the Universe

    May 22, 2018
  • Plastic bottle on a sand beach

    Earth Has Had 33 Years of Above-than-Average Temperatures

    May 21, 2018

Categories

  • Business
  • Headlines
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Tech & Science
  • US
  • World

Copyright © 2021 capitalwired.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Contact