You have thought about the order of the view of your stories almost whenever you posted one; no one can disagree with that. If you are an active user on this visual platform and make many posts and stories, this question has always been in your mind. So as I!
Most of us are using Instagram, either for business or personal reasons, or both at the same time. Over time, the users are using all the features on Instagram, and they start to realize that all parts of this great platform are essential and practical.
Regardless of their accounts, all users try to make a good impression, gain followers and increase their engagement rate.
For this reason, the notable thing is, you have to know how the Instagram algorithm works, not just in general, but in a particular way.
Let’s know more about stories, and how does the algorithm work on them?
You might have noticed that you have a list of users who see your Stories. But how much do you know about the algorithm behind the organization of viewers? Is it in a particular order or random?
If you have posted a story, tap on your profile picture, you can see the number and the list of your followers and other users that have seen it on the lower-left side of the story. Let’s see, how are views on Instagram stories organized?
How are the visitors organized in the list of viewers?
Many users guess that Instagram shows story viewers in a specific order. But you have to know that the users at the top of your story list are based on who “you” have interaction with the most, not them. Pretty sad, ha?
Just because someone special is at the top doesn’t mean that they visit your Instagram feed more often or watch your story over and over again. Instagram story views algorithm shows your list based on your activity and who you have interacted with.
Your data are gathered from the posts you have liked or commented on, profiles you have searched, etc. the Instagram algorithm will guess all these things based upon your interaction.
I think you’ve got your question’s answer. The accounts at the top of the list reflect your activity on Instagram and in every particular part like searches, comments, saves, DMs, and others.
Thanks to Instagram’s artificial intelligence, it is a direct way to understand your activity based on this list.
Can’t you find out who is most interested in your stories?
You have to acknowledge that The Instagram feed algorithm is not the same as the Instagram Story view algorithm.
As you know in the feed, Instagram shows the posts based on your activity and its guesses about the accounts that you have liked or saved, or shared. The organization of story viewers is pretty the same as the feed.
The algorithm does not show the posts chronologically or based upon their interaction with you—neither in the feed nor the list of story viewers.
Consider this: if your story viewers are under 50, it might be listed in chronological order.
So we cannot precisely know who is more engaged with us and our content. We have to improve our engagement rate and impression on our audience to succeed in our business. If we are not for business reasons on Instagram, we can expand our community and have more fun.
How can you increase your story viewers?
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri made a question box in his story recently, and someone asked him this question: Can you give three tips to grow stories viewers?
His answers are added here:
- Give people insight into something behind the scenes.
- Lean into videos.
- Use interactive stickers.
Conclusion
As you have noticed, we cannot trace our “stalkers” if you have a private account or find out the most loyal followers if we have a business account.
Just try to make unique stories so that you can have more viewers in the story.
Who are the top 5 visitors in your story list? Does it sometimes change, or is it steady? Please write down your thoughts below in the comment section.
