One of the reasons that experts have speculated regarding the acquisition of Instagram from Facebook was the to cope with Snapchat and their increased participation in the market. Well, apparently the strategy of the social network seems imitate various features of his rival, since the application of photographs has just unveiled a very familiar quality.
It’s “Instagam Stories”, which allows to introduce users of ephemerally slides, since they will then disappear after 24 hours. In addition, may be accompanied by texts, emojis and other texts, as well as take control of people who are watching our stories.
Yes, you read correctly, and they are not raving. It is too similar to Snapchat.
To access Instagram Stories, we can open it from the upper part of the home of the application. As with pictures and videos of our contacts, they will be ordered through an algorithm that detects the proximity or relationship that we have with our contacts.
However, despite the similarities, there are differences with Snapchat. For example, you can navigate between stories through touch screen control on our computers.
On the other hand, Instagram allows to share in this section photographs that have at most 24 hours old, while the competition allows broadcast older images using the option “Memories”.
A new chapter in the competition between Facebook and Snapchat, in which we must mention that the first on several occasions has trying to imitate the latter in many different ways. We will see if this now gives you results.
