--- title: As a developer do you use Instagram? | daily.dev description: Developers discuss their usage of Instagram and the benefits it provides. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-do-you-use-instagram--yzkvfbj8p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: As a developer do you use Instagram? | daily.dev og:description: Developers discuss their usage of Instagram and the benefits it provides. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-do-you-use-instagram--yzkvfbj8p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YzkvFbJ8P.png og:image:alt: As a developer do you use Instagram? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # As a developer do you use Instagram? **[Watercooler](https://daily.dev/sources/watercooler)** · [@debajyatidey](https://daily.dev/debajyatidey) · 1 min read · 38 upvotes · 29 comments ## Summary Developers discuss their usage of Instagram and the benefits it provides. ## Content  Note: I only have Twitter. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@thomas\_l** · 20 upvotes > Nope, I haven't found any interesting posts or profiles from my perspective. > And I find Twitter's tweet recommendations to be quite poor now... > I miss the Twitter before the Musk's era. > Therefore, I use Daily.Dev and Hacker News to stay informed, Reddit sometimes **@toshiromifune** · 10 upvotes > IG wastes my time, after using IG just for couple of minutes it's tough to regain my focus, I uninstalled it from my device. **@valdoryu** · 5 upvotes > No tweeter, no IG, no FB > > Social networks are everything but social > > Just go out and give your time to something meaningful **@pottekkat** · 4 upvotes > My rationale for not using Instagram is that it is a significant waste of time. I then proceed to waste my time on Twitter instead. **@helplanes** · 4 upvotes > For anything related to programming???...nope > > For new 9/11 angles, families dying from accidents, wholesome cats singing chipichipichapa???.... YESS > [JK I rarely open Instagram myself, but when I do, this is all I see:/] --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#instagram](https://daily.dev/tags/instagram), [#social-media](https://daily.dev/tags/social-media), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-do-you-use-instagram--yzkvfbj8p) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-do-you-use-instagram--yzkvfbj8p","headline":"As a developer do you use Instagram?","text":"Developers discuss their usage of Instagram and the benefits it provides.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-do-you-use-instagram--yzkvfbj8p","datePublished":"2024-03-18T07:05:03.134Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T08:21:52.411Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Debajyati Dey","url":"https://daily.dev/debajyatidey","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127122455?v=4","description":"Web developer, Technical Writer & Deep Learning Engineer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":31100}},"interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":38},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":29}],"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nope, I haven’t found any interesting posts or profiles from my perspective.\nAnd I find Twitter’s tweet recommendations to be quite poor now…\nI miss the Twitter before the Musk’s era.\nTherefore, I use Daily.Dev and Hacker News to stay informed, Reddit sometimes","datePublished":"2024-03-18T09:45:28.138Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YzkvFbJ8P#c-swJX764ea","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Thomas Laure","url":"https://daily.dev/thomas_l","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25416156?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":20}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"IG wastes my time, after using IG just for couple of minutes it’s tough to regain my focus, I uninstalled it from my device.","datePublished":"2024-03-18T11:20:00.882Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YzkvFbJ8P#c-dkZErWpji","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Toshiro Mifune","url":"https://daily.dev/toshiromifune","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OSSAKsnZ--/f_auto/v1708273398/avatars/avatar_9T6NTrC3g2g43S5ZwoyNM"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":10}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"No tweeter, no IG, no FB\nSocial networks are everything but social\nJust go out and give your time to something meaningful","datePublished":"2024-03-18T12:09:31.728Z","dateModified":"2024-03-18T12:09:48.468Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YzkvFbJ8P#c-w7M7j7hm1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Valdo Ryu","url":"https://daily.dev/valdoryu","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7875009?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"My rationale for not using Instagram is that it is a significant waste of time. 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