Pinterest is an image sharing and social media platform where users can save ("pin") images and videos to virtual pinboards to organize information by theme. Users create collections of pins called boards and can follow other users and boards. The home feed displays recently pinned content from accounts and boards the user follows. Pinterest also offers visual search functionality to find similar pins to an uploaded image and allows users to follow topics, accounts and boards for updates.
3. STORY
Pinterest is an image sharing and social media service
designed to enable saving and discovery of information
on the Internet using images, GIFs and videos in the
form of
pinboards.
Pinterest mainly comprises of "pins" and "boards". A
pin is an image that has been linked from a website or
uploaded. Pins saved from one user's board can be
saved to someone else's board, a process known as
"repinning". Boards are collections of pins dedicated to
a theme such as quotations, travel, or weddings.
Boards with multiple ideas can have
different sections that further contain multiple pins.
Users can follow and unfollow other users as well as
boards, which would fill the home feed.
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4. Home feed
Visual search
The home feed is a collection of Pins from the
users, boards and topics followed, as well as a
few promoted pins and pins Pinterest has
picked. On the main Pinterest page, a pin feed
appears, displaying the chronological activity
from the Pinterest boards that a user follows.
Pinterest introduced a visual search function
that allows users to search for elements in
images (existing pins, existing parts of photo,
or new photos) and guide users to suggested
similar content within Pinterest's database.
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5. Following
Updates
Pins
Product Pins
You can also follow accounts, topics and boards on Pinterest. To see new
posts from the accounts you follow, just tap on the Following tab on the
navigation bar on the top of the desktop version of Pinterest. This page also
appears on chronological order so you can keep up with any new posts by
accounts and boards that you follow.
This is where you can find updates about ideas, friends and followers.
When you find an image you’d like to save as a Pin, you can press the “Pin”
button that pops up over the images when you hover over it. Once you select
the “Pin” button, a list of images from the website will appear. From this list,
select the image you would like to create a Pin of from the image list and click
Save. Add or edit the description and then pick the board you want to save
to.
For any online retailer, having Product Pins makes shopping for your
customers easier through Pinterest. A Rich Pin for a product includes real-
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