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Instagram's latest update to allow public accounts to let others reshare their posts

Now, Instagram has introduced a new feature which is namely "resharing to stories".

Tech2 News Staff|Feb 07, 2018, 15:53:37 IST

Instagram seems to be on a feature-rollout spree. It hasn't been many days since the new Type feature was released, where users could change fonts of the written text. Before that, it introduced GIF support.[caption id="attachment_4329423" align="alignleft" width="380"]

Image: Instagram[/caption]Now, Instagram has introduced a new feature which lets you reshare to Stories. Now in order to reshare the user must have a public account as it will not work with private accounts.According to Instagram "other people can add your posts to their stories. Your username will always appear with your post."[caption id="attachment_4339917" align="alignnone" width="825"]

Instagram "reshare" option. Instagram.[/caption]This is similar to Regram, a third party app, which would help the user repost pictures or videos on the photo-sharing platform.

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