{"id":236215,"date":"2016-08-02T15:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=236215"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:57:30","slug":"new-instagram-feature-makes-content-disappear-after-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/new-instagram-feature-makes-content-disappear-after-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"New Instagram feature makes content disappear after 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is taking aim at fast-growing messaging app Snapchat with a new feature that gives users the option to make pictures and videos to disappear automatically after 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n The feature, Instagram Stories, will showcase pictures and videos uploaded by a user in a slideshow format, Instagram said in a blog post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Snapchat, which has more 100 million users, is known for automatically making postings disappear after 24 hours. However, the privately owned company released a feature in July called “Memories” that enables users to save and share content.<\/p>\n That will help it compete more directly with other social networks such as Facebook.<\/p>\n Instagram, which has more than 500 million members, said the new feature does not allow users to “like” an image or post a comment, but followers can send direct messages to the uploader.<\/p>\n Instagram Stories will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is taking aim at fast-growing messaging app Snapchat with a new feature that gives users the option to make pictures and videos to disappear automatically after 24 hours. The feature, Instagram Stories, will showcase pictures and videos uploaded by a user in a slideshow format, Instagram said in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n