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I strongly disagree. This is why I usually skip instagram photos when I see them on twitter. If I didn't skip them I would be less inclined to check my Instagram feed inside the Instagram app. This would lead to less double-tapping on photos I like, which would mean less incentive for the people I follow to post photos to Instagram.

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You are looking at it from the content consumer perspective. I'll give you the content producer view. When I realized that my Instagram pictures had far less reach on twitter than other options, I stopped using Instagram to share pictures on Twitter.

Your experience might be different, but I know a lot more people who use Instagram in closed networks than open networks. I would speculate that its growth is tied more closely to closed networks than it is to whether it enables cards in Twitter.

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