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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/twitter-verified-users-photos-instagram

Twitter encourages 'verified' users to stop posting photos from Instagram



This article is about how Twitter urges consumers to stop posting pictures through Instagram and to instead use their development to post images onto Twitter.

• Twitter has taken the unusual step of interrupting high-profile users within its own app, to suggest they stop posting photos from Instagram to the social network
• A number of Twitter’s ‘verified’ users – accounts held by celebrities, brands and other public figures, including journalists – received the in-app alert, which reminded them to “post your photos directly on Twitter to make sure your fans always see them”.
• Instagram photos haven’t been displayed within tweets since December 2012, when the company switched off its integration with Twitter’s “cards” system, in an attempt to drive more traffic to the Instagram website.
• The move could be seen as defensiveness on Twitter’s part: when Instagram announced that it had more than 300 million active users in December 2014, most reports chose to compare that figure to Twitter’s most recent milestone of 284 million.

The integration of both social media sites was a good idea as it promoted each site, helping them gain more users.