I was mostly wrong about Instagram’s plans and also mostly right. I know, that oxymoronic statement makes little sense unless you consider that Instagram Direct, unveiled on Thursday in New York, is the very first big step into a full-scale encroachment on Snapchat’s territory. It also means Facebook, to borrow a Taylor Swift lyric, will never, ever, ever bid on Snapchat again.
A couple of days ago, I predicted Instagram would unveil some sort of direct image messaging system and I almost called it Instagram Direct: “The ability to make chat-based or direct Instagrams temporary.” Instagram Direct is, as I guessed, a way of sharing images “between only a group of Instagram friends or with just one other user.” Read more…
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