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How To Use A Different Emoji On Instagram's Emoji Slider, Because The Sky Is The Limit

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by Sophie Hirsh

If you enjoy providing your followers with quality Instagram stories every day, you're probably already aware of the app's new emoji slider feature. Basically, instead of forcing your followers to answer a question with just two poll choices, the emoji slider allows your followers to answer your queries on a sliding scale — and with an emoji, to boot. In fact, the person posting the story can even choose an emoji from almost the entire emoji arsenal when posting a slider poll. That being said, many are wondering how to choose a different emoji on the emoji slider. Here's everything you could possibly need to know about using the new feature.

In case you missed the reveal of this new element last Thursday, Instagram unveiled the emoji slider in a blog post on its press site. "The emoji slider lets you ask more nuanced questions when you want to find out how your friends feel about something — like how 🔥 an artist’s new single is or how 🌶 they like their food," read Instagram's press release.

"By choosing an emoji for your question, you also add a layer of emotional context that helps those answering understand your tone and answer accordingly," the press release continued. Wow, who knew something on a social media app could have so much nuance.

First, take or choose a photo you'd like to share in your Instagram story. I'm going with a photo of some gorgeous loaves of rosemary sourdough bread.

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Then, swipe up from the bottom of your screen. Somewhere in between the icons for locations, GIFs, and polls, there should be an animated slider with the heart eyes emoji. Click that!

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The app will then prompt you to ask a question. It will also allow you to choose a text color, allowing you to select any of the preset colors. Unlike regular Insta Story text, holding your finger down to open up the full spectrum of the rainbow does not work for emoji slider questions.

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After you've written your question and chosen a text color, tap on the heart eyes emoji to reveal a row of commonly-used emoji just above the keyboard. Swipe that row to the left, revealing a second page, and, more importantly, a plus sign on the far right of the row.

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Click the plus sign to reveal endless emoji. A ton of different emoji are available, but not all of them. Most of the symbols (for example, the numbers, check marks, etc.) are not present; neither are the emoji from the most recent update or two. (Here's hoping that will be updated in the future.)

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After you've used the feature a few times, swipe this emoji screen to the right to reveal ones you recently used.

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I chose the bread emoji, naturally. After you post to your story, your followers will be able to slide the emoji along the scale to cast their vote, revealing a purple and red ombre bar along the scale.

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If you're wondering about the results of your poll, you will be able to see them in real time. Simply play back your story and then swipe up from the bottom, as you would when checking who viewed your story. Instagram will show each of your follower's individual votes, as well as the current average, and all your followers who vote will then be able to see that current average. And, as a careful reminder, your friends will be able to see how you vote on their emoji slider polls, so answer respectfully (unless it's a really good friend who appreciates being messed with).

Hopefully that answers any lingering questions you have about the emoji slider. Now please do excuse me, I have a very important appointment with an entire loaf of bread.

6 Interesting Applications for Instagram's New Emoji Slider

Instagram seems to be continually changing their formula for attracting people to their platform. Indeed they recently announced that they had passed the 1 billion monthly user milestone, and introduced their YouTube killer app – IGTV. While the arrival of Instagram’s new emoji slider for Instagram Stories may not be as groundbreaking as IGTV, it still adds to the enjoyment of Instagram's regular Stories users.

Instagram’s emoji slider is designed to be a fun way for Instagrammers to interact with their friends. You can use it to see how your Instagram friends and followers feel about something – not just in a “yes” or “no” type of way, but along a scale on intensity.

As its name suggests, the emoji slider has two parts. Firstly you have to select an emoji – you can choose any emoji sticker you like. The “slider” part of the name refers to the fact that your friends can slide the emoji along a scale to indicate how much they agree with a statement you have made. If they leave the emoji at the extreme left, they completely disagree with your comment or question. If they take it to the extreme right, they wholeheartedly agree with it. And if they place the emoji somewhere in between the two extremes, it gives you an indication as to their level of agreement.

6 Interesting Use Cases for Instagram's New Emoji Slider:
  • 1. Ask How Much People Like Something
  • 2. Ask a Quick Market Research Question
  • 3. Test Things Out on Your Audience
  • 4. Ask Your Followers and Customers What They Think of Your Content
  • 5. Use it to Try and Motivate Your Customers
  • 6. Place Your Slider Over an Image Showing a Scale

How to Add an Emoji Slider Sticker to Your Instagram Stories

Create your story as usual. If you are uncertain how to put together an Instagram Story, we covered this in How to Use Instagram Stories Like an Expert.

The emoji slider is just a particular type of Sticker, so if you want to add it to a page on an Instagram Story, begin by tapping the Sticker Tray icon. You will notice the emoji slider amongst the different stickers. Tap on it to select it. Place your emoji slider sticker in the place you want it on your chosen image or video.

At this point, you will be asked to enter your question. Type it in. Usually, you will want your emoji and question to either match or at least be neutral (like a typical happy face emoji).

You aren’t stuck with the default text color. You can change it by tapping one of the colors that come up beneath the sticker. Swipe left to right to expand your range of possible colors.

You can even change the background color of your Instagram emoji sticker to find one that better suits your image. You do this by tapping the ‘A’ button at the top of the screen and then tapping one of the color dots – again swiping the colors to gain access to additional colors.

There is a considerable range of emoji available for you to select from. Indeed you can use virtually any emoji you have on your device. Tap the default “heart eyes” emoji and pick an emoji that best suits your question or the mood of your story. You will see a selection of possible emoji beneath your slider, but if you select the + icon at the end, you will be shown a more extensive list of emoji. You can also use the search bar to search for a specific emoji.

Once you have designed your Instagram slider sticker, tap the Done button in the top right corner. You can continue to reposition your emoji slider, just like you would any other sticker.

How Does Somebody Use Your Instagram Emoji Sticker?                                      

Anybody viewing your Story will see your slider sticker when they reach the relevant image. They will be given the opportunity to vote according to your question. It’s important to remember you are providing your audience with a sliding scale – it isn’t suitable for Yes / No type questions. Instagram already has a polling sticker you can use for that.

For instance, you may have an emoji slider sticker asking your followers how much they would enjoy a pizza you show in your story. If they leave the emoji at the extreme left of the scale, they would hate your pizza. If they shift it to the extreme right, they love your pizza. If they move it somewhere in between, they have mixed feelings about your pizza.

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The emoji animates as it is dragged across the slider.

Once somebody has used the emoji slider sticker to answer your question, the average “score” pops up beneath the slider after their vote.

You are able to access more detailed results of your poll. Your Instagram Story shows you how many people have voted, a graphic representation of each vote, and the average result.

Of course. It’s essential that users realize that their opinions are not anonymous. The creator of an emoji slider does get to see the results. They know who’s voted, and how they voted. If you vote that somebody's pet is ugly, be aware that the pet owner will see how you feel, and you may suffer as a result in the real world accordingly.

Possible Uses for Instagram’s Emoji Sticker Slider

1. Ask How Much People Like Something

The emoji slider sticker can be great for finding people’s true feelings about something. For instance, you could compose a story for your friends about a new recipe you’ve just created. You could then poll your friends to indicate how much they like your menu.

You might like to get your friends’ opinion on your latest outfit. Of course, you will need a thick skin – your friends may not have as good an idea about your fashion sense as you do.

The important thing is that you are gaining an insight into how much your followers like something – not merely whether they like it or not.

2. Ask a Quick Market Research Question

Businesses and their influencers can use an emoji sticker slider to help with their market research. For instance, an ice cream company could create a story showing their chocolate chip cookie ice cream flavor, and ask their customers to show how much they love that flavor on the slider.

You could even word your question in such a way to effectively ask your followers to compare two variants. For instance, you could ask them how they felt comparing cookies and cream ice cream with strawberry ice cream.

The question doesn’t have to be about their level of like either. A shampoo manufacturer might want a guide to the type of hair that their customers have. They might use an emoji sticker slider question to ask customers where their hair fits on the continuum: dry hair on the left, normal in the middle and oily hair on the right.

3. Test Things Out on Your Audience

You could use Instagram Stories to test out new material on your followers. For instance, if you are a comedian, you could test possible new jokes for your act in a series of short video clips to an Instagram Story. On the final screen, you would include an Instagram emoji slider sticker, asking you fans to rate your joke on a sliding scale of funniness.

There are undoubtedly other types of creative content which you could share and then ask for feedback on how much your audience likes it.

4. Ask Your Followers and Customers What They Think of Your Content

It can be challenging to create content that your audience loves. It is much easier if you have the opportunity to gain feedback from your supporters. More and more influencers and brands have polled their audiences in recent times in an attempt to better tailor their content to audience needs.

If you include an emoji slider, you not only learn whether your audience likes your content, but you also discover how much they love it.

You could try this for a particular Instagram Story, or you could create a story that is more generic, asking your audiences how much they would like more of certain types of content. For instance, you could ask them how much they would like you to post more videos instead of photos.

If you are a designer, you may use an emoji sticker slider to get an indication of how people feel about your latest design. If you have created multiple versions of a book cover, for instance, you could use a slider on each cover design to get an indication of people’s thoughts.

5. Use it to Try and Motivate Your Customers

You could create a fun Instagram Story showing fun and/or innovative uses for your product. You could have a series of images and/or short video clips showing the suggested uses. On your last screen, you would include an Instagram emoji slider asking people how inspired they are to try out your product.

Likewise, you can use an Instagram Story, with an emoji slider, to generate hype for something – perhaps the release of a new product or an upcoming event.

6. Place Your Slider Over an Image Showing a Scale

Sometimes it can be hard to take real meaning from a score if there is no indication as to a scale. Although the emoji slider doesn't show a scale itself, you could create an image depicting a scale and position the slider on top of it.

For instance, you could ask your followers to rate something from 1 to 5. You could create an image showing a 1-5 point scale and set the slider sticker appropriately on it. Your followers will then move the slider to match the score they believe appropriate.

You could even adapt this to change the whole dynamic of the slider. For instance, you could turn it into a multiple-choice type question, by creating a scale with 4-5 answers. Your audience would then move the slider to match the appropriate answer. The average scores would have less meaning in this case, though.

It may be fiddly lining everything up, but once you have tried matching the slider to an appropriate image with a  scale on a few times, you should find it easy to replicate.

The new Instagram emoji slider may appear to be just another sticker for Instagram Stories. But it has immense potential to increase your audience interaction. What are you going to do with an emoji slider in your next Instagram Story?

How to use poll stickers in Instagram Stories

Polls appeared in Instagram* Stories for a long time, they are actively used by ordinary users, bloggers and large companies. For a business, if it learns to organically use the possibilities of social networks, poll stickers can help a lot with the involvement of subscribers.

In the article “Instagram Stories Basics*: Posting Rules and Useful Features” we talk about different ways of creating stories, secrets and life hacks of the format. nine0003

Instagram* has four types of poll stickers to engage followers in Stories:

  • Question . You invite subscribers to submit a question to the form, and then post and answer the questions they ask.
  • Poll . Subscribers see your question and can vote for one of two options. After a person has voted, he sees how many percent of people voted for one or another option.
  • Scale-vote . Represents a slider with an emoji that you can choose from. Subscribers move the slider to express their reaction to the question. After a person votes, he sees the average answer.
  • Quiz Sticker . A question with 2-4 possible answers. After choosing, the subscriber will immediately know which option is correct.

Let's see how to add all these polls to Instagram stories* and how to use them for business.

How to add a question to your Instagram story*

To post a question, go to your story, upload your photo or video, and then select the "Questions" widget in the settings. You can choose the color of the widget, as well as increase or decrease it.

Ask people to ask you questions and post their answers in Stories

To view the responses to your questions, click in the lower right corner of the post in Stories - the responses will be there. You can scroll through all the responses or share one of them. nine0003

If you'd like to share a response or answer one of your subscribers' questions, open the response you want, then click Share Response. A form will appear in which there will be your question and the answer to it. You can choose your background, as well as add your comment and publish it in stories.

You can share answers to stories, transfer responses there and write your comments on them

How to add a poll to Instagram stories *

To add a vote, go to stories, add your photo or video. Go to settings and select the "Polls" widget. As with questions, polls can be color-coded and resized. nine0003

In the survey, you write the text of your question and two possible answers. It is better if they are short - the fields for answers are very small. Everything, poll can be published!

Subscribers are offered a choice of two options

After the poll is published, you will see what percentage of people voted for a particular answer. In addition, you can open the analytics of your story and check which subscribers chose this or that option. And the statistics also show a clear number of those who voted and saw the stories with the survey. nine0003

How to add a voting scale to Instagram stories*

To add a voting scale, go to the stories section, select a picture or video for the background, and then select the voting scale icon in the settings. She can change the background and size, and also choose the emoji that will be used in the timeline.

If you go to the voting scale statistics, you can see what answer each of the voters gave. nine0003

By clicking on the statistics icon, you can see exactly how the people who viewed the publication voted, as well as send them a message in direct. In addition, the total number of viewers and voters will be indicated there.

How to add a sticker quiz to your Instagram story*

To add a sticker quiz or sticker test, go to your story, select a background video or photo. In the stickers, find the widget that says "Test". Give the form a name or write a question, suggest answers and indicate the correct one. You can change the number of options, color and size of the window. nine0003 In the statistics, you can see how the subscribers answered and who gave the correct answer.

The subscriber will be able to choose one of the proposed options and immediately find out if he voted correctly.

The account owner has access to statistics where you can see what answer was given most often, what each user chose, which of the subscribers chose the correct option. To see it, swipe up on the story.

Test stickers are suitable for conducting surveys, intellectual and entertaining quizzes, competitions, and data collection. nine0003

You can create stories with polls and other stickers in the delayed posting mode using the SMMplanner service. All you need is to register and choose the appropriate tariff. The blog will help with the search for ideas for Instagram* Stories, and the service will help with the technical side of the implementation.

How Instagram polls* help to engage followers on social networks

Great help! You ask subscribers a direct question, and they answer it. They answer because people generally love surveys, tests and all that. And also because the question is asked not in a post, but in a story, where most of the content is generated by ordinary people, and there is no feeling that “this store is asking me for show. ” nine0003

You can use the results of polls and polls on Instagram* for internal research of the audience of your business, as well as simply fulfill the desires of your audience: for example, suggest in stories to choose which drink will be seasonal this winter - salted caramel latte or gingerbread latte . Feedback from people will help you decide.

Companies actively use questions and voting in stories to engage their audience

What else do polls on Instagram* do is to draw the attention of your followers to values ​​and ideas that are meaningful to you. You can ask questions to people in such a way that, by the answers, they feel like a single group that shares your values. nine0003

In addition, you can invite people to ask you questions, and from these questions to collect ideas for content, and write about what your target audience is most interested in. You will learn a lot about your audience if you just ask them. Questions and polls - it's so easy!

Pottery school uses different types of polls to communicate with followers

8 Instagram* poll ideas for business

Here are some story poll ideas that can engage your audience:

  • Offer to answer any question about your business . Collect questions from your followers and answer them in stories or posts.
  • Ask your followers for feedback on your work . Ask a specific question, for example, why did you choose us? What did you like most about your work? This will make it easier for people to respond. You can use responses as reputation content, and work off negative reviews, gaining loyalty. nine0014
  • Organize contests in stories . Invite subscribers to answer a difficult question about the company and assign a prize for the correct answer.
  • Launch seasonal promotions by voting . Invite people to choose which of the two promotions they want or which product they dream of choosing as a seasonal item. The most popular option and worth using!
  • Find out more about your CA . Ask personal questions in stories, arrange voting, test hypotheses. Remember that it is the concentrate of your target audience that enters stories, the people who are interested in you right now - and it is important to know everything about who they are. nine0014
  • Follow the reactions to the new . Publish your new items and add a voting scale to them to follow the reaction of the audience: did you like the new item or not at all.
  • Ask people to help you choose . This is how you show that the opinion of your customers is important to you. For example, you can have a vote on whether people like the new sign or which of the two logo options you should choose.
  • Add votes to company news . People are not so interested in reading just facts about you, and through polls and voting, they are given the opportunity to express their reaction. Compare: “We opened on the Kitai-Gorod metro station” or “We opened on the Kitai-Gorod metro station! And which coffee shop is more convenient for you to get to, the old one or the new one? Options: Kitay-gorod or Pushkinskaya.

Trust me, you'll get a lot more feedback if you ask questions! Try different options for working with voting, study how your subscribers react to them, and apply this engagement tool to your business. nine0003

The article has been updated. First published November 12, 2018

Instagram Stories Slider Sticker - use cases, how to post

Instagram Stikers* Stories that can be tugged, pressed - the best thing Instagram could come up with*. After filters on photos that hide curvature and AR masks that hide age and lack of sleep, of course.

Slider sticker? nine0031

I always thought it was a slider sticker, but on the Instagram blog* it's called a slider, so we'll call it that.
It is not signed in the sticker menu, although among SMM specialists the names “sticker with a slider” and “emoji sticker (with a smiley face)” are used.

From the Instagram press center*

The “slider” sticker with a slider along with the “test” and “poll” stickers can be classified as feedback stickers, because they allow you to communicate with subscribers: to vote, to check the level of knowledge of your audience, its satisfaction with the content. nine0143 Thanks to the shape of the sticker, you can come up with different options for interacting with the audience.

Options for using the slider sticker

To increase the interaction of the target audience with the content of the account, which gradually leads to an increase in coverage. If you invite the audience to choose something or ask something, and show your reaction to their answers, the majority of voters will participate in other polls, because in these polls their opinion means something.

We use stickers to get feedback on content
Obviously, SMM specialists regularly collect statistics and analyze “what content went in and what didn’t.” You can conduct more detailed research that will allow you to adjust the content policy.

For example, you launch a promising column, but see that it is coldly received, your viewers can suggest why this happened.

The same principle can be used to adjust the content plan. You can ask the audience “what topic to broadcast” or “what next post to publish.” nine0003

When using the sticker for content hints, don't forget to post the conclusions: "Ok, I understand you, I react as you suggested." If the majority chose “a selection of“ how to work at home ”” publish it, if people ask to be“ tougher ”in the analysis - be tougher.

Drive traffic to your site or certain posts using interactive
Come up with a test question for your audience, for example, "How many skills should an SMM specialist have." The next slide contains the answer to this question, it can be a link to a website or a repost of your post with an answer, or it can be just a slide with a simple answer. nine0003

Using this principle, you can first give a note, say, publish 3-4 stories with facts, and then publish the Story with a slider sticker, which can be answered if you carefully looked at the previous stories. This way you can understand how carefully the audience is viewing your stories.

Explore the audience: learn what they know, their preferences
To get really valuable data that will help to discover your audience, you need to include the age of the why and ask questions about everything in the world, then some questions will “shoot”, and It will be possible to conduct a qualitative study of the target audience. nine0003

I am writing an interesting article and I am thinking in which popular blog should I publish it: VC, Spark, Rusbase? Perhaps by asking this question to subscribers, you can decide.

Similar questions look very good in educational accounts:

  • environmental protection: how many tons of plastic are thrown away, how much recyclables are recycled in Voronezh, what is the carbon footprint of a dog.
  • SMM topics: how many interest settings in VKontakte targeting, the maximum allowable duration of a live broadcast on Instagram*. nine0014
  • cooking: what is the glycemic index of peanut butter, how much crab should be cooked.

Do interactive, just give them a reason to push the slider to the maximum
It is believed that people on social networks like to push all sorts of buttons, especially if it has something to do with polls, why not give them a reason to participate in this?
Ask questions like “how warm do you need to go outside”, “evaluate the level of coolness of this cat”. You can ask more meaningful questions “how did you like the last broadcast?” or "Do you agree with Mr. T's opinion?" nine0003

Final Knowledge Test
Test your subscribers on their knowledge of a topic. First, publish a few stories with a “test” sticker, where subscribers try to answer correctly, and in the final story, invite subscribers to evaluate their own knowledge.

Emoji in the sticker can be changed to more appropriate ones.

If you do not give a rating scale, but limit yourself to a question, most likely, the vast majority of viewers of stories will drag the slider to the end.

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