{"id":270740,"date":"2016-11-22T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270740"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:15:10","slug":"instagram-launches-live-disappearing-video-and-changes-direct-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/instagram-launches-live-disappearing-video-and-changes-direct-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram launches live ‘disappearing’ video and changes direct messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"
Instagram has become the latest social media company to embrace live video broadcasts.<\/p>\n
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, which owns Instagram, YouTube and Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope, Instagram has released a new feature that allows its users to broadcast live at any time.<\/p>\n
Anyone watching can comment and react by posting emoji that pop up on the live video screen.<\/p>\n
If it sounds familiar, it is.<\/p>\n
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As soon as you finish your broadcast, it will disappear forever.<\/p>\n
That means you won’t be able to share a link to your broadcast and viewers won’t be able to watch it after it’s happened.<\/p>\n
In a statement, an Instagram spokesperson said that was “so you can feel comfortable sharing what you want, anytime”.<\/p>\n
To begin with, the feature will be rolled out to a select group of users before being available to everyone in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Instagram launched Stories which allows users to post a series of video and photo snapshots and annotate them with words and emoji – Snapchat style.<\/p>\n
Those stories last for 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The second major feature to be released by Instagram is a change to direct messages, both one-on-one and to groups.<\/p>\n
Users will now be able to send disappearing photos and videos privately among friends, as opposed to just text.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Instagram has become the latest social media company to embrace live video broadcasts. Following in the footsteps of Facebook, which owns Instagram, YouTube and Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope, Instagram has released a new feature that allows its users to broadcast live at any time. Anyone watching can comment and react by posting emoji that pop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[3,5928],"yoast_head":"\n