{"id":243,"date":"2014-04-18T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2014-04-18T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:00:47","slug":"instagram-updates-explore-page-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/18\/instagram-updates-explore-page-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Updates Explore Page Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t noticed yet, since you haven&#8217;t gone to the Explore page in *years*, Instagram has updated its Explore page algorithm. This page has featured only photos with the most likes. This led to poor quality photos by brands and celebrities always being on the Explore page. Thanks to some algorithmic curation, it seems that you get a curated Explore page that shows photos very similar to the ones you&#8217;ve liked in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This has 2 impacts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1905.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1905-576x1024.png\" alt=\"New Explore Page\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1905-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1905-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) People will start clicking on the explore page again.<br \/>\n2) Users that otherwise would never get any attention, now do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1906.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1906-576x1024.png\" alt=\"surfacing content you want\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1906-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1906-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great job Instagram!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t noticed yet, since you haven&#8217;t gone to the Explore page in *years*, Instagram has updated its Explore page algorithm. This page has featured only photos with the most likes. This led to poor quality photos by brands and celebrities always being on the Explore page. Thanks to some algorithmic curation, it seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/18\/instagram-updates-explore-page-algorithm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instagram Updates Explore Page Algorithm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}