What are shares?
When someone forwards your content by DM, in their story or to another app.
Shares carry your content beyond your followers. On Instagram, a post sent to a friend is one of the signals that matter most for reaching new people.
Content your audience wants to send to a specific person (funny, surprising or very useful) is what gets shared most.
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