Instagram have just released their latest
update for the app. This update comes with one in particular exciting new
feature. Instagram have decided that they wanted to add a direct messaging
service in the app, this service also users to send pictures directly between
certain users with out others seeing.
The reason that this has come about is
because Instagram want to stay competitive in social networking, in the last
year an app called Snapchat was released that allowed users to send each other
direct message with images that could be viewed for a set amount of time and
this app became very popular. Now months later Instagram are trying to get on
this trend of being able to send direct messages and attract some of their now
distant users back.
It has also become apparent that over the
last few days Twitter ha also decided that it is going to allow its users to
send pictures via their direct messaging system.
I think it is visible her that there was
and still is a trend for being able to send though private images to your
friends for free via social media, and for Twitter and Instagram to now try and
catch up with Snapchat is a wise move. Maybe the basic direct messaging systems
will not match the quirkiness of the timed image on Snapchat, but it is a step
in the right direct.
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