Instagram Now Lets You Share A Live Stream With Someone Else.
Instagram Live Stream: The app has introduced a new live streaming feature that allows two people to go live at the same time. The company began testing the feature in August, but this is the first time Instagram’s made it available to everyone.
You can remove guests and add another person at any time. Friends who have accepted your invite to go live can also leave the video at any point. Users have the option to add the live video to stories afterwards or can choose to Discard it.
Instagram notes on its help page that any of your followers and friend’s followers will be able to see the new “Go live with a friend” videos.
Here’s how to use this new feature:
- Tap
in the top left of the screen or swipe right from anywhere in Feed.
- Tap Live at the bottom of the screen, then tap Start Live Video.
- Tap
.
- Tap on a person’s name to invite them to join your live broadcast.
- If your friend accepts the invitation to join, you’ll see them appear in a split-screen view. You’ll also see if they’ve chosen to decline.
- You can remove the person you invited to join your live video at any time by tapping x at the top right corner of their split-screen.
For Instagram, the feature could dramatically boost engagement with live video. The company says opening up live streams to multiple people at once makes the feature more accessible to those who may be too shy to do a live video solo.
Whether that logic will bear out now that the feature is turned on for everyone is another matter, but the company obviously thinks it’s promising enough to expand from a small test.