Fifth-time lucky? Instagram introduces Snapchat-style Stories
by HAL 90210 from Technology | The Guardian on (#1P8GS)
It appears that Facebook and its subsidiaries won't stop until Snapchat is beaten
The photocopiers in Menlo Park must be overheating: for the fifth time, Facebook is trying to steal Snapchat's thunder with a new feature that is, er, heavily reminiscent of something that started its life on the ephemeral sharing app.
Today's attempt comes not from Facebook directly, but from its subsidiary Instagram. It's called Instagram Stories, and the best way to describe it is "like Snapchat stories, but on Instagram".
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