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Instagram's Snapchat Clone Is Now More Popular Than Snapchat -- and It's Only 8 Months Old (cnbc.com) 50

Posted by msmash from the big-shark,-small-shark dept.
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.
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Instagram's Snapchat Clone Is Now More Popular Than Snapchat -- and It's Only 8 Months Old

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  • BULLSHIT (Score:5, Insightful)

    by darkain ( 749283 ) on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:17PM (#54228859) Homepage

    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)

    • there are many auto-bots (oddly enough often masquerading as hair salons).
    • I'm beginning to think msmash has stock in Snapchat.

    • Well, since there's absolutely no way I can disable stories, both in Facebook, Facebook for Android and Messenger for Android, I can really see them selling this to advertisers:

      "Hey, we have this new feature that engages users to . Furthermore our 7B user-base is adhering so much we have already surpassed Snapchat. You can purchase ad-space on Facebook for just and you also get access to our random FB marketeering crap"

      • well apparently a lot of my comment was eaten by my usage of larger/smaller operators. I thought I had this set to plaintext :(

        • 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 "&lt;" instead of a less-than sign.

          And I always preview. That will save you a lot of grief.

          Hope that helps!

    • This is why i love slashdot so much. The communities bullshit radar is spot on, thank you for your service!

  • What's an "active" user? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Solandri ( 704621 ) on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:22PM (#54228897)
    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.

    • They are probably counting people forced to see "My Day", aka Stories on top of everything they actually want to use, without the possibility to remove it. I will gladly send 5 bucks (or whatever premium beer costs around where you live as long as you make your case) via PP to anyone that knows a setting that disables it in both Messenge and Facebook for Android (no older version install included, and Facebook employees are also excluded for good measure).

  • That story [slashdot.org] 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 ....

  • Unfair Comparison? (Among other things) (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Isn't this a bit like saying that Microsoft Paint is more popular than Photoshop by an order of magnitude?

  • I'm bored of the Internet as an app delivery tool (Score:4, Funny)

    by JonnyCalcutta ( 524825 ) on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:29PM (#54228945)

    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.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by swb ( 14022 )

        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.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by sinij ( 911942 )
          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.

          • 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...

        • 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...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by WallyL ( 4154209 )

      You forgot: Apps in your apps, which app! APPS!

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        I always knew you were the app apps guy.
         
        Captcha: Disowns

    • 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 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?

  • So Facebook learnt from the Microsoft playbook on how to destroy a competitor, and give the people nothing but garbage in return.

  • 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.

  • Wait, Instagram and Snapchat are different things?

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