Yesterday, Instagram unveiled a new feature, “Stories”. Much like the popular Snapchat feature, it will enable users to share their day-to-day activities through videos and pictures.
Other features include a 24-hour time frame, which means your stories will disappear after 24 hours. Being able to add emojis and texts to pictures and videos, sending to a list of followers as well as blocking certain people from seeing it - basically many of the features which make Snapchat unique.
Users took to the web to express their views. Let’s just say they weren’t completely impressed….
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Instagram bring out stories to compete with snapchat, people use it to promote their snapchat. Brilliant. pic.twitter.com/N9vkZqEbzx
— John McMahon (@IAmJohnMcMahon) August 4, 2016
Watching Snapchat and Instagram stories like..... (Vine by @chrisashley12m) https://t.co/7HiHGkUaVW
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For their next act, @Instagram will be giving a 100% original speech, first written and performed by @MichelleObama in 2008
— Jack Brody (@jackdbrody) August 2, 2016
Instagram trying to be like Snapchat #instagramstories pic.twitter.com/KbyGCtYqRr
Creators of Snapchat probably typin a nice strongly worded letter to Instagram now #instagramstory pic.twitter.com/HNlUot6AfH
