Are you ready to make an Instagram story?
Instagram stories are one of the biggest ways to engage with your followers this year. The content you share to stories doesn’t appear on your profile grid, or in the main Instagram feed. Your stories disappear after 24 hours, so be sure to post frequently.
Creating stories is pretty simple. All you have to do is swipe left, or tap the “+” on your icon, in the top left corner of the screen.
Once you have stories open, you can take a photo, a video or use one from your camera roll. If you swipe right, you’ll be able to choose between Type, Live, Normal, Boomerang, Focus, Superzoom, Rewind, Hands-Free, and Stop-Motion. Play around with each of them, and try using each of them in different story posts.
Next you can add filters, stickers, texts, and gifs. You are able to tag people using the @ followed by their user name. Verified accounts or Business profiles, with 10,000+ followers can add a website link to their stories.
Make sure to add a hashtag, and location to your Instagram story. Using them will help your Instagram Stories be found, and also appear on the Instagram explore page. This is a great opportunity for your content to be seen by people that aren’t even following you.
Once you have everything set, tap to share your story. That’s it…. now you know how to use Instagram Stories.
