The photos and videos that you add to your Instagram Story will disappear after 24 hours, and Instagram says that anything that you post to your Story won’t appear in your profile grid or your feed.
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The app update features a roster of Instagram stories at the top of your feed where you can skip from one video clip to the next and view new snaps.
Stories can be viewed from the top bar of your home feed, which features a row of people’s profile pictures (it looks very similar to Snapchat’s stories page). Instead, you will have to send a personal message as a comment on the story. Instagram stories are public if your account is set to public… also like Snapchat. For better or worse, swiping up on one of your Stories will bring up a list of the users who have seen it thus far, which should be enough to satisfy certain curiosities. Snapchat lets you know who may have taken a screen shot of your story while Instagram doesn’t (yet).
In the competitive world of social media, Instagram seems to be trying to combine the curated photos that made it so popular with the immediacy and temporary nature that make Snapchat so appealing. Your story follows the privacy settings of your account.
Yes, it’s pretty much exactly like Snapchat.
Instagram owner Facebook is no stranger to this. The company unsuccessfully tried to buy Snapchat for US$3 billion in 2013, people familiar with the matter said at the time.
Check out Instagram for more details on the feature and to play around with it yourself, just check to make sure you have the latest updated version of Instagram on your phone. “Now you can share your highlights and everything in between, too”.
Imaginatively dubbed Instagram Stories is a lot like Snapchat Stories.
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What do you think of these changes? Since then, videos on Instagram have been increased to 60 seconds. However users can hide their entire Story from a specific follower or followers.
