Instagram is reportedly working on a new API, one that would make it so that brands wouldn’t have to log in to Instagram at all in order to access their DMs. Much on the contrary, they would be able to access messages that their clients and customers might have sent them through third party apps. This can be useful for brands since they can create dedicated apps that would deal with messages they receive and integrate messages from all platforms into a single app, although this would require similar APIs in other sources that are not owned by Facebook.
This does indicate a shift in the way Facebook is doing business. It seems like the social media juggernaut is no longer all that concerned about whether or not brands stay on the platform while messaging, just them using the messages in and of itself would be enough to give the platform the kind of profits and influence it needs. It will be interesting to see whether or not brands start using this feature, although it’s safe to say that Instagram would not have started working on it if they weren’t already reasonably sure that brands would end up wanting something like this.

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