{"id":378808,"date":"2017-08-09T00:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/08\/instagram-testing-add-a-friend-live-video-feature\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T00:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:45:26","slug":"instagram-testing-new-feature-that-lets-live-broadcasters-add-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/instagram-testing-new-feature-that-lets-live-broadcasters-add-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Testing New Feature That Lets Live Broadcasters Add a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram today <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram-press.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/go-live-with-a-friend\/\">announced<\/a> that it&#8217;s testing a new feature allowing live video streamers to invite a friend to their stream.<\/p>\n<p>When using live video with a friend, the screen is split into two and viewers see both streams at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/instagramlivewithafriend-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-580745\"\/><br \/>Adding a guest or a friend can be done by tapping the &#8220;new&#8221; icon on the bottom right and then tapping &#8220;Add&#8221; on anyone who is currently watching an ongoing livestream on Instagram. Viewers can be swapped out at will, but live streamers can only have a single guest at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram says it&#8217;s testing this feature with a small percentage of Instagram users, with plans to roll it out globally over the course of the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram today announced that it&#8217;s testing a new feature allowing live video streamers to invite a friend to their stream. When using live video with a friend, the screen is split into two and viewers see both streams at the same time. Adding a guest or a friend can be done by tapping the &#8220;new&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":378809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-378808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}