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A new feature from Elon Musk’s X is about to be released to rival Instagram Reels and TikTok.

Depending on their interests, users will receive a stream of videos, both longer-form and shorter-form videos.

New Feature on Elon Musk’s X: Reels

By gathering user-generated and shared video material under one tab, the service seeks to spotlight it.

Later this summer, a beta version is anticipated to be accessible to a limited number of users.

Since acquiring Vine in October 2022, Elon Musk has expressed a desire to release an enhanced version of the social media network.

When Musk polled his fans in April about whether to revive Vine, almost 70% said “yes.” The “cool video experience” of Vine is what the new video platform seeks to recreate.

With 200 million users at its…

Instagram has added support for the Close Friends list to Reels and Posts, allowing users to share their content with a limited audience. “Sharing with your Close Friends is now expanding to Feed and Reels. More types of posts with the same smaller group,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on his Instagram broadcast channel.

Close Friends list isn’t a new feature, and it’s already available for Stories and Notes. The feature originally launched in 2018 lets users have privacy on the platform and gives them control over the visibility of the content they share on a post-by-post basis.

When you share a Story, post, or Reel to the Close Friends list, it’s only visible to the people who are part of it. You can add or…

Instagram has rolled out an in-app feature to download Reels on the platform which is available only for smartphones.

Reels are an important feature for the company since it competes with TikTok and similar short-format video services.

Up till now, users had to use a third-party app or hidden tricks to download Reels from the platform.

YouTube rivalry

Last August, YouTube started including a logo-based watermark on downloaded Shorts to discourage cross-platform sharing.

So this move by Instagram could be a tactic to attract people to watch more content on the platform.

How it looks

The platform has added a download button in the share menu, and the downloaded reel will be saved to your smartphone’s camera roll.

If these options aren’t showing up users will need to update the…