{"id":952467,"date":"2025-08-04T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952467"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:14:54","slug":"instagram-live-streaming-rules-change-who-can-still-go-live-and-whos-restricted-check-if-you-are-on-the-list-and-other-key-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/04\/instagram-live-streaming-rules-change-who-can-still-go-live-and-whos-restricted-check-if-you-are-on-the-list-and-other-key-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram live streaming rules change: Who can still go live and who\u2019s restricted; check if you are on the list and other key details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has introduced a major policy update limiting access to its popular Live streaming feature. Previously, any user could go Live, regardless of their follower count or account privacy settings. Now, only users with at least 1,000 followers and a public account can initiate Live broadcasts. This change aligns Instagram with platforms like TikTok, which have a similar follower minimum to use live streaming. While Instagram hasn\u2019t officially explained the rationale, the move appears aimed at enhancing the quality and relevance of live content on the platform, reducing infrastructure costs, and steering creators towards more professional, monetized use cases. However, this decision has sparked concerns about its impact on smaller creators and everyday users who relied on Live for casual social interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has introduced a major policy update limiting access to its popular Live streaming feature. Previously, any user could go Live, regardless of their follower count or account privacy settings. Now, only users with at least 1,000 followers and a public account can initiate Live broadcasts. This change aligns Instagram with platforms like TikTok, which have a similar follower minimum to use live streaming. While Instagram hasn\u2019t officially explained the rationale, the move appears aimed at enhancing the quality and relevance of live content on the platform, reducing infrastructure costs, and steering creators towards more professional, monetized use cases. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}