Instagram mulls charging a fee for tagging links in photo captions
A newly-discovered patent filing suggests that Facebook-owned
photo sharing platform Instagram may be
considering charging a fee to add links to photo captions.
The
patent application shows a pop-up appearing when the user adds a URL to a
caption, asking if the user wants to pay $2 to make the link live, reports The
Verge.
"If the online system detects the text content of the caption
includes a string of link text identifying an address, the online system
prompts the posting user to pay a fee in exchange for generating a link,"
the patent application read.
However,
if Instagram were
to implement this feature, it would raise the question of whether people would
want to pay $2 per link.
Meanwhile, Instagram head Adam
Mosseri said in a blog post last week that they have been reviewing the way the
photo-sharing platform verifies accounts for the past two months and as a
result of which, they have made changes to the verification process.
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