A big change could be coming to your Instagram feed

Instagram users, you might want to sit downInstagram may soon be messing with your timeline, showing photos not based on chronological order, but based on popularity and other social signals.

In other words, your Instagram could soon be curated in a way similar to Facebook's News Feed. The move, which comes about a month after Twitter started new timeline experiments, was first reported by The New York Times.

With a userbase of almost 400 million users, Instagram has remained one of the few social networks that shows content in a strictly chronological manner. With the exception of sponsored posts — which are interspersed in your feed based on various cues — what you see in Instagram is reflective of the now. Read more...