It seems that Instagram is just adding as many features as it can.
Instagram's competition has contributed to stagnation in the growth of snapchat stories sharing, but messaging remains beloved by snap's younger users. Now you gdg their weekly highlights in the feed, daily adventures on stories and messages in Direct.
Yes, this can make it similar to Facebook in some ways.
The revelation follows our scoop from this research last week that uncovered voice and video calling features hidden within Instagram's Direct messaging system.
Facebook-owned Instagram has been continually pushing improvements and features to take on its rival Snapchat.
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According to TechCrunch, there are numerous references to voice and video calls in the latest Instagram Android Package (APK) files. But the Instagram-Snapchat arms race has led to increasingly gaudy and bombastic augmented reality filters, colorful stickers and seething GIFs. Its new owner, Facebook, obviously has a firm grip on the importance of chat functions native to its own app.
This isn't the first time we're hearing that Instagram is testing these features internally.
Instagram's blatant copy of Snapchat's "Stories" has been the company's smartest move, as 300 million of its active users have embraced the feature within a year of its launch. Both of these allow for users to take photos and videos and then string them together like a slide show, which they can then broadcast to their followers, before they disappear in 24 hours. Instagram could always decide against publicly releasing these new features, though, if internal strategy or external testing turns against them.
But at the end of the day, users will be the deciding factor.
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