Instagram Testing ‘Flipside’ Feature to Let Users Add an Alternative Account to Existing Profile

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Testing ‘Flipside’ Feature to Let Users Add an Alternative Account to Existing Profile

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’s Close Friends feature that lets you limit your posts, Reels, Stories, and Notes to just close friends was expanded to more users in November last year. Now, the Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform is bringing a new feature called “Flipside” to make the app feel more private.

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Head Adam Mosseri says the feature is currently in testing. The feature would allow users to create a secondary photo grid that only designated friends will be able to see. It will show as an alternative account to your existing profile and will allow you to post more personal pictures and videos with a select group of followers and friends.

In a Thread post on Monday (January 29),

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Head Adam Mosseri

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that the company is testing a feature called Flipside. “We’re not even sure we’ll launch it on

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,” Mosseri wrote in response to a user on Threads post. “On one hand it feels good to create a clear space that feels more private. On the other, it’s yet another way to reach a smaller audience on top of secondary accounts and Close Friends. We’ll see how people respond in the test, and iterate forward”, he added.

Meanwhile, noted social media consultant on Threads

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a video showing off the Flipside tool that would allow users to create a private side to their

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pages where they could post more personal pictures and videos for a subset of their friends. The feature is said to be rolling out to select people for testing according to him. He states that the concept behind Flipside “essentially productise “finstas’” — a popular slang term for alternate personal

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accounts where people post their real-life photos — for the

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audience.

The Flipside was first

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December last year by noted developer Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) with a series of mockups shared on X. As per the images, Flipside refers to “a new space just for you and your friends” where “only the people you choose can see this side of your profile and what you share here.” Followers can access the Flipside account of a user by tapping on a button or swiping down on their main profile.

Like the main account, users would be able to set up different profile pictures and bios for their Flipside for a select number of viewers. The community guidelines from

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would apply to the new space as well.

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