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Instagram has recently updated its status feature, Notes, allowing users to post short two-second video updates. Previously limited to text and emojis, this new feature allows users to share looping video notes with their Close Friends and mutual followers for a day.

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Instagram said on Wednesday 13^th December 2023 that users will soon be able to upload videos as Notes. Instagram’s status feature, Notes, was introduced a year ago. You were limited to adding text or emojis to your status update until recently. You can now post a two-second video note that loops and shows up to your Close Friends and mutual followers for a full day.

For those who want to share a video on Instagram for a full day, the new Notes update might be a little confusing because you can already post video Stories on the platform. But video Notes won’t likely take the place of Instagram Stories because two seconds isn’t a very long time. The fact that you can only share video Notes content taken with your front-facing camera is another way that video Notes and video Stories differ from one another. Additionally, you cannot upload a video from your phone’s camera gallery when posting a video Note you must record the content inside the app.

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By navigating to your inbox, tapping on your photo in the Notes tray, and then selecting the camera button above your photo, you can post a video note. You can then record a two-second video by tapping the record button. After the video meets your approval, you can choose to add text and share it.

While your friends could already reply to a Note with text, the social network is giving them additional ways to reply: they can now reply with audio, photo, video, gifs, and stickers. Your response will be sent to your friend as a direct message (DM) if you reply to their note with an image or sticker.

Due to its ability to facilitate text-only communication, Instagram Notes was initially viewed as a competitor to Twitter (now X) when it was first introduced in December 2022. The launch of the feature coincided with the search for a Twitter substitute following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform. The New York Times reported at the time that Meta was thinking of developing Instagram Notes into a more serious competitor to Twitter. However, as of right now, we are aware that Meta has discovered Threads, a Twitter competitor that debuted in August.