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. Mosseri said that follower count was never a requirement to get a verification badge.

Source: dna September 14, 2020 05:37 UTC