u/Beneficial-Ad-5492

Why does Instagram count all post/comment timestamps in exact weeks, not years, unlike other apps? Is there any reason or is it just like that?

Instagram's timestamp on posts and comments starts normal; it counts seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, then nothing. Weeks is the maximum. Regardless of how much time has passed, it will still show the exact number of weeks ago something was posted. Even if a post was made exactly 7 years and 127 days ago, it will show "383w" instead of "7 years". Now it's somewhat normal when you consider showing weeks instead of months, since it's easy to calculate (i.e. 16 weeks instead of 4 months. It's not as big as 383 weeks, making it easy for the average person to calculate when it was posted), but why say something was posted "383 weeks ago" instead of saying it was posted "7 years ago", like most other social media apps?

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u/Beneficial-Ad-5492 — 5 days ago