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How to Tag Someone in an Instagram Post, Story, or Comment
- You can tag someone on Instagram in four main ways.
- Instagram lets you tag someone in a new post, an existing post, a comment, or a story.
- This story is part of Business Insider's Guide to Instagram.
Social media is supposed to be "social" and on Instagram, tagging is one of the tools you can use to make it a more collective experience.
When you tag someone on Instagram, it usually triggers a notification for the person you tag (the exception being when a private account tags someone who isn't following them.)
Here's everything you need to know to tag someone on Instagram.
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How to tag someone on InstagramThere are four ways to tag (or mention) people on the Instagram mobile app for iPhone or Android.
When you tag someone in a post, it will appear on their profile, in the "Photos and videos of you" section.
1. Open your Instagram app.
2. Create a new post by tapping the plus symbol, edit the photo then tap "Next."
3. After you've finished editing your photo, tap "Next" again.
4. Fill out your post as usual, but before you publish, tap "Tag People."
Press Tag People right below your caption. Devon Delfino/Business Insider5. Tap the photo where you want the tag to appear, then enter the name or username of that person and tap to select them.
6. Tap "Done" on your iPhone or click the checkmark on your Android.
7. Tap "Share" and publish your post.
How to tag someone in an existing Instagram post1. Open your Instagram app.
2. Toggle over to your profile and locate the post you want to tag someone in.
3. Tap the three dots above the photo or video and select "Edit."
Tap Edit to tag someone.
Devon Delfino/Business Insider 4. Tap "Tag People" and enter their name or username, then tap to select the proper user.
Tap Tag People on the bottom left of the post. Devon Delfino/Business Insider How to tag someone in a comment on InstagramTechnically speaking, you can't tag people in a comment. But you can mention their username and thereby get to the same result.
Here's how.
1. Tap the speech bubble icon under a post to make a comment.
2. Type out your message (if necessary) then type "@" and start entering the person's Instagram username.
Type out the username of the person you want to tag and click their name. Devon Delfino/Business Insider3. Tap the proper username to tag them in your comment.
How to tag someone in an Instagram story1. Tap the camera icon, located in the top-left side of your screen (or swipe right when viewing your feed).
2. Take a photo or video to create your story (or select one by tapping the thumbnail of your last photo in the bottom-left corner of the screen), then tap the "Aa" option in the top right corner.
3. Type "@" and then begin to enter their username and select the person you want to tag by tapping their username when it appears.
Type out the username of the person you want to tag and select them. Devon Delfino/Business InsiderTagging someone in your story will create a link to that person's Instagram profile.
The person you tag in your story will both get a push notification and a direct message within the app showing them a preview of your story – and be aware that you're limited to 10 of these tags per photo or video story.
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Devon Delfino is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist specializing in personal finance, culture, politics, and identity.
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Mentioning A User And Looking Up Hashtags On Instagram
You can type an @username to mention someone, but you will need to know the exact username, as Instagram does not allow searching for users.
You can also add hashtags by typing the # symbol followed by the text for the specific topic you are interested in.
Both the @username and hashtags will become actionable on Instagram, once the post goes through.
If you aren't certain about the @username or hashtags you're using, and you're posting to Instagram via de SmarterQueue Mobile App, you can (re)add them manually when copying the caption back into the Instagram App, before finalizing the post.
Mentioning A Page On Facebook
Recently Facebook made a change to how you can mention others. You can only add mentions when creating a post for a Page – you cannot add mentions for posts to a group.
In order to mention a Facebook Page inside the post, start typing an @ sign, followed by the page name - you can include spaces if the page name contains spaces.
As you type, a dropdown will appear with a list of search results of matching Facebook pages - select the correct page name from the list, and it will be shown highlighted in blue in your post text, confirming that the mention has been applied correctly.
Sometimes typing the page name exactly as shown on Facebook does not display the page you are looking for.
If this happens, here are some tips & tricks on adding the mention to your post:
1. Try adding the different words in the page ID in reverse order when searching. For example, if the page URL is www.facebook.com/SmarterQueue, this means that the Page ID is 'SmarterQueue'. Rather than searching by @SmarterQueue, try @QueueSmarter.
2. Try the Page ID, which can be found by visiting the page on Facebook's website and looking at the URL - the Page ID will be the characters after facebook.com (e.g. for Social Media Examiner's page, their URL is https://www.facebook.com/smexaminer, so the Page ID is smexaminer.
So you could try mentioning their page by typing any of the following: @Social Media Examiner or @SocialMediaExaminer or @smexaminer.
3. Make sure there are no privacy or age/location restrictions on the page.
Facebook may not return pages in search results that aren't public or have age/location restrictions.
If you're mentioning multiple pages, make sure to select each one from the drop-down before moving to adding/typing the next.
Do not attempt to edit or delete any part of the text within the blue tag, as this will break the tag, and the page will not be mentioned correctly in the post.
Note: Facebook’s API restricts all third-party tools from publishing mentions from Facebook Groups, and you cannot mention personal Profiles or Groups. Because of Facebook’s restrictions, you can only mention Facebook Pages from a Facebook Page.
Mentioning An Account And Adding Hashtags On Twitter
You can look up a Twitter profile to mention, by typing an @ symbol followed by a few characters. You can then choose from matching Twitter profiles.
You can type any #hashtag.
While Twitter does not offer hashtag lookups, these will become actionable once the post goes through.
If you're mentioning multiple profiles, make sure to select each one from the drop-down before moving to adding/typing the next.
You can now include a mention for one or more LinkedIn Company Pages when creating a post for a LinkedIn Profile or Page – you cannot mention a LinkedIn Profile.
In order to mention a LinkedIn Page inside the post, start typing an @ sign, followed by the ID as shown in the page's URL:
As you type, a dropdown will appear with a list of search results of matching LinkedIn pages - select the correct page name from the list, and it will be shown highlighted in blue in your post text, confirming that the mention has been applied correctly.
Note: You will need to know the URL ID and enter it entirely. SmarterQueue won't be able to do a general search for the company name or other keywords due to API limitations on LinkedIn's side.
You can enter the Page's ID to successfully mention it even if it doesn't have a vanity name, but a serial number instead.
Mentioning Accounts On Pinterest
We do not currently support mentions for Pinterest.
Common Questions
Is there a difference between mentioning and tagging?
Yes, there is! You can mention a profile/page in the text of a post on SmarterQueue, but tagging them in a picture is currently an API limitation for any third-party tools.
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On their posts, they most often tag either friends who are present in the photo, or brands whose products are also present in the photo. In both cases, your post will appear in the tagged account in the "Tagged" section. If the account that you mark as closed, then your photo will be seen only by those users who are subscribed to the marked account.
Thus, any user who logs into your friend's account, for example, can see your joint photo and go to your account. The reach is also given by the marks of friends and brands, but in the second case it is many times more. Even better, if you not only take a photo with the brand's products, but also write a review or rank the top products that you like.
Then it is more likely that the brand will publish your post in their account and tag you.
Content that users create for other users is called UGC. You can read more about how UGC content works, what it is and why brands need it in the article “How UGC content works on social networks”.
To tag an account while publishing a post, click "Tag users", select the area on the photo where you want to mark. For example, if you want to tag a brand of glasses in a photo, click on the glasses. After a new window will open with a search bar, find the desired account and select it.
If you want to tag an account in an already published post, open the desired post, click the three dots in the upper right corner and select "Edit" to edit the post. In the lower left corner, click on the little man. Then you know what to do.
If your post did not appear in the account that was tagged, it means that the account owner has enabled pre-moderation and manually adds tagging.
Either he didn't approve of your mark, or he simply forgets to check for new marks. The switch to manual tagging was provoked by spammers who randomly tag accounts on contest and other posts.
How to tag a person on Instagram in the comments
Since it is impossible to tag a friend in a photo in other people's posts on Instagram, it is important to tag him in the comments. Thus, you can draw the attention of a friend to some kind of post, most often humorous. Or fulfill the condition of the contest - tag friends in the comments to the post.
To tag a friend in an Instagram comment, open the desired post and type the account name followed by @, for example, @livedune. You can tag up to 5 accounts per comment. Users you tag will receive tag notifications.
Track mentions of your account to respond to user content in time.
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How to tag a person in your story on Instagram
The traffic in the Stories section is not inferior to the views of the feed, so many promotion mechanics have spread here as well.
For example, holding contests in which the user must screenshot something, post it in their Stories and tag the account of the contest organizer. Mutual PR with another account or the same UGC. There are two ways to tag in Instagram stories.
Method 1. Upload/take a photo/video to stories, click on "Aa" in the upper right corner. Type the name of the desired account through @ and select the desired account.
If an underline does not appear under the name, then the account name most likely made a mistake, and the mark will not be clickable.
Method 2. Almost the same as the first, only a separate “Mention” sticker is used for marking. You can change the background of the sticker, otherwise there are no differences.
10 accounts can be marked in one story. The tag is clickable and anyone viewing stories can go to the account you tag. The account that you tagged will receive a notification in Direct about the tagging and the opportunity to add this stories to yourself.
Instagram tags can be used to increase the organic reach of your account. For example, by marking accounts of brands whose products are present in the photo.
Or you can create several Instagram accounts for each product/service (if you don't have a website and a small number of products, otherwise you'll be tormented) and tag them in the main account. By the same principle, you can create a quest game, for example, as @gla_build_your_own did. This is a prime example of how you can use seemingly primitive functions on Instagram in a non-standard way.
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Instructions for comments, stories, photos and videos in a post.
How to tag a person on Instagram* in the comments under a post
In Instagram*, such a tag is called a mention. It can come in handy if you want to draw the user's attention to a post or conversation below it. After you add a tag, the discussion will display the name of the selected person. They will receive a notification and be able to quickly move on to posting.
To mention someone in the comments, type @ (dog) and start writing the username.
When a list of accounts appears on the screen, select the desired person. Add any comment text if needed, then click Publish.
How to tag someone on Instagram* in a photo or video in a post
If you took a photo or video that includes your friends, you can tag them in your post. In this case, links to the accounts of the selected people will appear in the post. If your profile is not private to them, these users will be notified of the post and can quickly view it.
As an example, we'll show you how to tag a person in a photo. Marks on the video are put in the same way.
At the time of publication
Prepare the post for publication: add a photo, adjust colors if necessary, and apply filters. But don't hit the share button just yet. Instead, select Tag People (iOS) or Tag People (Android). Then tap the photo.
Add the names of the desired users using the search form. When marks appear on the image, you can move them to suitable places.
Click the checkmark or Done. Now use the "Share" button to publish the post with all the marks.
In an existing post
Click on the three dots next to the post you want to edit and select Edit (iOS) or Edit (Android). Click "Tag People" (icon with a person), touch the photo and add the necessary people using the search form. When the marks appear on the image, you can move them to the appropriate places. Click on the checkmark or "Done" and then again.
How to tag a person in an Instagram story*
Instagram* allows you to tag people not only in posts, but also in stories. This can be done using a special sticker or the @ symbol. Choose the method that seems more convenient to you.
Using the sticker
Click on the account photo. When the Stories editor opens, add the photo or video you want. Then tap the sticker icon at the top of the screen and select @mention. Start typing a username and select the right person when their profile appears on the screen.
Move the added sticker to a convenient location. If desired, change its scale by pinching and spreading your fingers. After that, you can add other people in the same way. When you're done, publish the story.
Using the @ symbol
Click on your profile picture. When the Stories editor opens, add the photo or video you want. Touch the screen, enter the @ symbol and immediately after it, start writing the name of the desired user. When the list is displayed, select the person you are looking for. If necessary, add other people in the same way.
Use the color icons and the slider to customize label appearance. When you're done, you can post the story.
How to view posts you've been tagged in and remove tags
Other users can, of course, also tag you in their posts. Such publications are displayed in a special section of your profile. Here you can view them and, if necessary, delete your name.
To see the posts you've been tagged in, open your personal profile and swipe left on your posts list.
