Meta-owned social media platform Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that will allow its users to add a featured song to their profile page. The feature is similar to one first seen and made popular in the Myspace era, from 2005 to 2008. The song will reportedly appear on the profile page under the user’s bio. Screenshots posted by the tipster also suggest that visiting users are unable to play the featured song on the profile page, but this may change as the prototype feature develops further. An Instagram spokesperson also confirmed, in a comment, that the feature is an “internal prototype” at this time.
The feature that allows users to add a title track to their Instagram profiles was first spotted in prototype testing by developer and consultant Alessandro Paluzzi, who took to Twitter to post screenshots of the feature being rolled out. practice. However, the reported feature is not being tested externally, an Instagram spokesperson added.
According to Paluzzi, the internal testing feature appears on the Instagram profile by following the link in the bio section. The developer demonstrated the feature by adding a song to her profile. As seen in the demo, users will be able to add the featured profile song in the profile edit section of their user profiles.
Myspace first popularized a similar feature in 2006, while the social networking platform was still enjoying its time, between 2005 and 2008, as the world’s largest social networking site. The feature was introduced to Myspace in June of its most notable year: 2006, where it overtook search giants Google and Yahoo! as the most visited website in the United States.
However, the Myspace era began to end in 2009, when Google’s advertising partnership with Myspace ended, leading to an annihilation of the platform’s revenue and the eventual downfall of other giants like Twitter, Facebook and the like. However, the popular feature of allowing users to add songs to their profiles has not completely disappeared from the Internet. Popular dating apps like Hinge allow users to add songs to their profiles. However, if the prototype feature is finally released publicly to users, it would be the first time the feature has returned to popular social networks since the end of the Myspace era.
However, since the feature to add songs to a user profile is not being tested externally, there is no guarantee that Meta-owned Instagram will make this feature public. But users can find hope in the demo shared by Paluzzi that showed Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” being added to his profile.
