FB Stock: Instagram Stories Rips off Snapchat
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) is a force, with FB stock up 18% year-to-date to triple the S&P 500 Index and profits that continue to impress.Click to Enlarge It's easy to think that the success of Facebook, then, is simply because of one man — CEO Mark Zuckerberg.After all, FB has created two new classes of shares in recent years in order to allow the 32-year-old Harvard dropout to retain power of the company he created … well, perhaps forever.
Instagram Stories is Here to Kill Snapchat
Instagram Stories has been released in an update to the photo-sharing app this week, with it looking set to become a true Snapchat killer.The new feature allows users to post ephemeral photo messages, which will be automatically deleted after 24 hours.The photos do not appear on your Instagram page, so you needn't worry about applying the right filter or loading their descriptions with hashtags, with them instead displaying at the top of your followers' feeds.
Instagram takes a page from Snapchat with Stories launch
Instagram announced the arrival of a secondary feed of ephemeral content that will disappear within 24 hours – just like Snapchat.Do the Olympics need a home?Why some wish they would just stay put'You're going to see stories pop up in other networks over time,' said Kevin Systrom, Instagram's co-founder and CEO,in an interview, 'because it's one of the best ways to show visual information in chronological order.'
Instagram Stories might be a Snapchat rip-off, but it's better
"Good artists copy; great artists steal" – the famous words of Picasso, revived by Steve Jobs, ring true today as the world complains that Instagram's new Stories feature copied Snapchat.Instagram Stories is a new feature that lives at the top of your newsfeed and allows you to pop in a stream of photos that expire after 24 hours, just like Snapchat.You can try following mine, for example, for endless pictures of my cat.
Snapchat V Instagram Stories
Instagram yesterday announced its latest feature — Instagram Stories — and the Internet wasn't having any of it.If we're being completely honest, it is basically Snapchat.Think about it: the 24-hour time frame, adding emojis and texts to pictures and videos, sending to a list of followers, blocking certain people from seeing it, etc., etc., etc.
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