Instagram Introduced an Interactive Poll Sticker in Instagram Stories

  • Date: 28 October 2017
  • reading time: 3 Minutes
  • Blogger: Gurby Bulo

Today Instagram introduced an interactive poll sticker in Instagram Stories that lets you ask a question and see results from your audience and followers as they vote.
Whether you’re trying to plan where to go for holidays, tomorrow’s outfit or where to go for dinner, now it’s easy to share a two-option poll right in your story. After you’ve taken a photo or video for your story, select the “poll” sticker and place it anywhere you’d like (You can even write out your own question and customize the poll choices).
After you’ve shared your poll, your audience and followers can immediately start voting and see real-time results. Once someone has voted on your poll, they’ll see which choice is in the lead at any given moment. And if they watch your story again later, they’ll see the latest results. To see your own poll results, swipe up to open the viewers list for that part of your story. There you’ll see everything you need to get the best answer for your question. Not only will you see how many votes each option received, but you’ll also see who voted and what option they chose. That way, you’ll be able to compare votes from the friends and followers whose opinions you trust most. And just like your story, your poll and its results will disappear after 24 hours.

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New Creative Tools

You’ll also see two new tools to help make your stories even more creative: a color picker for text and brushes and an alignment tool for text and stickers. 
When you choose a color for your text or drawing tool, you’ll see a new eyedropper icon at the far left. Use it to select any color from your photo or video and apply it to your text or drawing tool.
Also, on iOS, when you position text or a sticker on your photo or video, new blue lines will appear to help you center it or avoid placing it anywhere that might get covered up when someone watches your story. And when you rotate text or a sticker, new guides will also help you snap your sticker back to horizontal.

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Let us know how you’re using the interactive poll sticker and join the conversation in our community.

  • Blogger: Gurby Bulo
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  • Online Marketing Strategy Expert at Social Media Gids
  • Internet entrepreneur Gurby Bulo is the Founder of Social Media Gids and host of @SMG Hangout. With his virtual team, they follow the latest online marketing developments because they like it ;-) and to provide you with information, strategies and support necessary to increase your online marketing knowledge, sales and growth on your way to (financial) freedom.
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