There’s also been a shift away from disappearing messages. Snapchat rolled them out first, but now every social network from WhatsApp to Instagram has stories.
Get a little help keeping track of all the news you need including auto social searches by keywords, topics, hashtags and users with automated search streams. Stories have been one of the biggest social network features of the last few years. “Well done, Caity! It’s about time the world knew what was going on,” one person tweeted in response to the article. If Archie has taught us anything by trying to date both Betty and Veronica at the same restaurant on the same night, even with a pair of rollerskates, you can’t be everywhere at once. On social media, the conspiracy that something or someone is manipulating the follower counts of the royal Instagram accounts has resonated with other people who are confident that Sussex Royal should be in the lead. But by 17 February, the Kensington Royal Instagram again had more followers.
The investigation does note, however, that the Sussex Royal account found itself in the lead on 21 January. Possible explanations outlined by Weaver include: the possibility that more people simply want to follow Prince William and Kate Middleton, that perhaps Kensington Royal is given better placement on Instagram’s “Who To Follow” list, that the more popular account was the “beneficiary of a concentrated fan-driven campaign to keep its numbers high, that Sussex Royal’s success may have been initially supplemented with bots, or that Kensington Royal has been receiving follower boosts in the form of bots.