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Instagram's Snapchat Clone Is Now More Popular Than Snapchat -- and It's Only 8 Months Old (cnbc.com)
Facebook's top Snapchat clone Instagram Stories has hit 200 million daily active users, surpassing the last count of 161 million that Snapchat announced alongside its IPO. Instagram Stories launched in August, hit 100 million dailies in October, and 150 million in January, so it's hardly slowing as it grows. Meanwhile, Instagram is getting faster at copying even Snapchat's most technologically advanced features with a series of global iOS and Android updates. A report adds: Along with this announcement, Facebook is introducing new 'sticker' tools for Instagram, to make it a more appealing alternative to Snapchat, and more engaging for its users. Now Instagram's users can turn their selfies into stickers, which they'll be able to easily share, or pin within a video. The app is also launching new Geostickers for Chicago, London, Madrid and Tokyo to apply over photos. The stickers have been designed by artists from the respective cities, enabling users to tap to learn more about the art.
Well, I don't care about either one of these marketing vectors.
As an active user of NORMAL Instagram, I'm going to call absolute total bullshit on this. This is just like how Facebook tried to claim their video service was more popular than YouTube because they set videos to auto-play on the feed AND auto-loop, artificially inflating their view counts. With Instagram now, if you tap on someone's user icon in the normal feed, it'll take you to their stories instead of their profile. This artificially inflates their "stories" user count by taking people to a place they never wanted to go to in the first place (stories vs viewing someone's profile)
Are they counting people who actually use the service to type and receive personal messages? Or is it like Instagram where it constantly receives feeds from people you don't know in the background? I had to use TitaniumBackup to freeze Instagram because it was sucking up so much battery life, and I only used it once every few weeks to catch up with my sister's family photos.
That story claims Facebook is following Microsoft trajectory. The question is where is it in the trajectory? Lotus123 vs Excel or Wordperfect vs Word, Netscape vs Internet Explorer, Google vs Bing ....
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Isn't this a bit like saying that Microsoft Paint is more popular than Photoshop by an order of magnitude?
Snapgram, instachat, chatomatic, picsnap, instasnap, whatsnapp, snappychat, papchat, snappysnappychatchat, chittychittybangbang, fuckitall-o-matic.
No kidding. Some of us use the internet to do actual things instead of finding novel ways of staring in the mirror.
So Facebook learnt from the Microsoft playbook on how to destroy a competitor, and give the people nothing but garbage in return.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
I'm amazed at not only the amount of data that people give these companies, but the sheer number of companies they're willing to give their data to. It's astonishing.
I don't respond to AC's.
there are many auto-bots (oddly enough often masquerading as hair salons).
You forgot: Apps in your apps, which app! APPS!
I always knew you were the app apps guy.
Captcha: Disowns
I'm always amazed at the number of people on Instagram who have actual pictures of themselves standing in front of a mirror.
I just can't quite wrap my head around that level of narcissism.
i use instagram and snapchat and for totally different reasons. i've never seen anyone use this feature on instagram.
instagram is for when you want to show off or memorialize things
snapchat is for "live" things when you want to be silly and in the moment
Facebook/etc are obsessed with selfies and ads. Apple's obsessed with tablets, phones, smart watch bands and emojis. Microsoft's obsessed with placing ads in every product they sell/rent. Adobe's gone the rental route so you can't even own their programs anymore. Linux is in the middle of a civil war cause by systemd and GUI choices.
If there ever was a time where a fourth option for computer OS was needed, it is now .
You forgot to post as AC.
Not that it matters, but ....
Fuck you fuck fucks fucking fucks you!
FUCK!!!!!!
Luddite!
Yeah I just substituted you Favourite words with Fuck.
Kinda. It's more attention-craving than self-attention. No merit, just ego.
I don't expect people to "live a life that's more than just you yours and yourself", but could you at least occasionally think that way? "Small minds discuss people" and all that.
Wait, Instagram and Snapchat are different things?
-Dave
I wonder if during the ARPANET days, anyone pondered a use for such a communications tool to be able to send the digital equivalent of a middle school classroom note.
I reason it is easier to take selfie in front of the mirror, so unless your point that taking any selfie is narcissistic, mirrors have nothing to do with it.
Some of us use the internet to do actual things instead of finding novel ways of staring in the mirror.
So when I'm doing something on the Internet, what criteria do I have to meet for it to be an "actual thing"? Right now, I'm posting to /. & looking at c++ thread management strategy. Am I doing "actual things"?
...so unless your point that taking any selfie is narcissistic...
I think he was trying to imply that all selfies are narcissistic. I think that's a little judgmental, but I can at least see where he's coming from.
Is this the one that facebook surreptitious never deletes?
...to make an ass of yourself on the internet.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I wonder if during the ARPANET days, anyone pondered a use for such a communications tool to be able to send the digital equivalent of a middle school classroom note.
You mean the "write" command?
... Millennials... so.... much.....
Is up next, after everyone left cable tv, now we have people running around telling everyone that they deleted their facebook account.
Yeah, me too. I really love running to the nearest computer stores to see if they've added any new programs to their DVD racks as well as swimming through their bin of discount software.
Facebook needs to improve its own technology before stealing the tech of others. This is clearly IP infringement and is the sort of thing the courts SHOULD be able to handle in 2017. Alas, legal incompetence means "oh you had a cool idea? gone." So yeah, Facebook fack off pls. And pls remove all the bullshit from your own service. Facebook is more botnets than humans at this point. Do you believe that? That's my guess as a man of computational science. Anyhow, SnapChat I hope you make it through, and I hope you are able to hire some lisp programmers to help you overcome even huge teams at lumber mills like facebocks. Okay, much love y'all.
The website has none of this, seemingly.
Fuck apps. I wish they'd die.
Also, I heard it is a load of bullshit anyway.
They replaced a common access point to profiles with a link to their stories instead.
So muscle memory is the user of Instagram Stories, not the users behind said muscles.
Great design choice guys, not scummy as fuck at all.
You're right up there with Google+ and Youtube integration that nobody fucking wanted.
So when I'm doing something on the Internet, what criteria do I have to meet for it to be an "actual thing"?
If its not in an App. Or at least in an app whose name isn't some variation of snappygram.
But, this is because Snap Chat stopped allowing users of certain versions to log in. In other words, forcing people to buy $600 phones in order to update. Not worth it. Jokes on them though because you can just use Cydia Impactor to install a workable version for iOS 8 by CokePokes.
I'm always amazed at the number of people on Instagram who have actual pictures of themselves standing in front of a mirror.
You'd have to be a regular of user of Instacrap to know something like this so why do you bother?
If I find something annoying I stop giving it my attention...
I reason it is easier to take selfie in front of the mirror, so unless your point that taking any selfie is narcissistic, mirrors have nothing to do with it.
It's even worse when someone has a 'selfie in the mirror', but the photo has been taken from an angle that would be impossible for the phone they're holding to take...
The "Plain Old Text" setting for Slashdot simply inserts <br> tags where your lines end, so that you can use line breaks for formatting. I've always used plain text, and happily take advantage of the ability to insert <blockquote> and other tags manually. Yes, I actually have to type the four characters "<" instead of a less-than sign.
And I always preview. That will save you a lot of grief.
Hope that helps!
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