All to do with the pandemic.

In third place:

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In second place:

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And top, as with Facebook:

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Only three metrics here: likes for pictures, views of videos and comments on both.

The most comments went to the small montage for F's 21st birthday.

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The most likes went to our reunion picture with B, on her birthday, after we had not seen her for three months.

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And the most viewed video was of B and her not-very-secret boyfriend earlier this month.

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Most liked photograph:

https://instagram.com/p/CBniuvngLNx

Most viewed and liked video:

https://instagram.com/p/CAfqCjDg8X4

The two above both had four comments, as did this:

https://instagram.com/p/B9qqwyGg5CQ

It's not all that easy to measure Instagram impact (and they are going to make it more difficult). These two videos both got between 300 and 400 views.
My top five Instagram photo posts were:

(Second of six posts: see also traditional media, LinkedIn, Livejournal, Twitter and Facebook.)

My top post on Instagram, with 203 likes (no doubt due to cunning use of hashtags) was my first picture from the London Film and Comic Con in July.

https://instagram.com/p/Bl0OtnJB7Al

Second most popular, with 90, was a view from the walls of Dubrovnik into the main city from June:

https://instagram.com/p/Bj12FC4gKJw

And third, with 88, was a view of the Atomium in the mist a few weeks ago.

https://instagram.com/p/BqkZiCmFum_

I am not an addict of Instagram, but I do enjoy it and have tended to find the atmosphere much more positive than on other social media.

I love Instagram - it’s the only network I’m on where the default behaviour is to be kind. Add me - I’m @nwbrux there as I am on Twitter - and I’ll probably add you, if I haven’t already.

This was my most liked picture of the year, taken by Jo Honigmann in 1993, posted by me 24 years later to the day, with 114 likes.



This was the most liked photograph actually taken by me this year, on a visit to Strasbourg in May - one of those moments when you just come around the corner and a lovely image reveals itself to you; it got 69 likes:



And this was my most liked sequence, from the FACTS comic con in Ghent in October; it got 57 likes (link doesn't seem to work, try here):