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Instagram is trying to put Snapchat out of business. It’s a blatant, money-grubbing move from the company who is already known for pulling stunts like this. Remember when people used Vine? That was really fun until the evil geniuses at Instagram decided that they could do it better.
I’ll see the occasional Vine post now and again on Twitter, but once Instagram decided they should allow users to post video it was basically a wrap for them.
With Instagram Stories, you don’t have to worry about overposting. Instead, you can share as much as you want throughout the day — with as much creativity as you want. You can bring your story to life in new ways with text and drawing tools. The photos and videos will disappear after 24 hours and won’t appear on your profile grid or in feed.
Here’s a video to see it in action.
Could Snapchat go the way of Vine? I highly doubt it. There is way too much money behind that operation for it fail like Vine did. But Instagram allowing it’s users to post video that only lasts for a certain period of time sounds a lot like Snapchat, doesn’t it?
I’m still learning how to use it, but I’m gonna need a rebuttal update from Snapchat in the next few days here. This is a street fight now and Instagram just broke out the brass knuckles..
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jduda@grandex.co
Until I can send a non permanent pic of my meat sword on Instagram snapchat will have a spot on my phone
Snapchat saves all images sent. Cyberdust doesn’t, but then again no one uses Cyberdust.
Instagram has more users than Pinterest, Snapchat, and Vine combined. Snapchat is a one trick pony, Instagram will kill it. Pinterest will live on because it’s where women hide desperation.
Also the functionality of Instagram is far different than that of pinterest…
Wouldn’t know.
100% agree. Zuckerberg just created a better/easier to use version of SnapChat. This will be a major blow to their growth potential long-term, which is what their current value is entirely based on. They must be losing their minds at the SnapChat office right now.
I know this will never happen, but if Snapchat could respond by bringing back the best friend feature and the way stories used to show up, not by playing through them all at once, that’d be greaaaat.
JD you missed the most important part of this update. You can now scroll unlimitedly through past likes of your followers, as opposed to a few hours prior before.
Capitalizing. Power move.
Instagram and snapchat are both owned by Facebook so I don’t think this is as malicious as it seems.
Also, watch out for that typo on the penultimate paragraph.
Watch out for a new source of M&A news…hopefully you haven’t been buying FB stock under that assumption.
Facebook doesn’t own Snapchat. They made an offer to buy it but the creators of Snapchat turned it down. Facebook created this new Instagram feature to directly compete with Snapchat. So now we will get to see how well Snapchat can compete with the social media might of Facebook. I will be surprised if Snapchat can compete without being able to make money outside of sponsored ads and geofilters.