Instagram Live
Instagram continues to focus on streaming video and private messages. To do this, it has launched a new function that will begin to appear in Instagram Stories for iOS and Android in the coming weeks. This is Instagram Live, thanks to which we will be able to broadcast video to our followers in real time. In other words, they will only be able to see it live in the purest style Periscope The company has also launched a type of limited-time messages, which will disappear shortly after being read, a feature very similar to that offered by Snapchat
Instagram Stories for iOS and Android will have in the coming weeks Instagram Live, a new function that will offer us the possibility of making videos in full direct with other contacts. From TechCrunch they assure that we will be allowed to choose some friends, who will receive a notification every time we want to broadcast a live video. They will not have the option at any time to be able to see the recorded content after it has been carried out. The goal of Instagram with this new functionality is not to have a video directory like the one of YouTube , if not to attract the public's attention for a certain time. As we say, notifications will not be sent to all followers, only to those that have been previously selected by the user.
It seems that within Stories we will see a new option, Explore , which will show us the best broadcasts that are being made at that moment. To do this, the number of visits will be taken into account, as well as the language or geography. In short, Instagram prepares a service very similar to Periscope, a tool that, associated with the Twitter account allows you to broadcast what is happening live. They can be very comfortable to tell important things, or for when there is an event for which we want everyone to be aware.
Parallel to this launch, Instagram is also preparing for Instagram Storieslimited-time messages, very similar to the ones we see on Snapchat.Direct will now have a Flash Stories message bar at the top along with a list below where the flash messages will appear that other users want to send us. What is sought is not to store too much text and to introduce, as it were, throwaway phrases.
Instagram launched Instagram Stories last month of August, a function to capture photos and videos, add drawings of all kinds and upload them, so that they are no longer available after a certain time has passed. This service was just missing the ephemeral text option, which is just starting to arrive now. In this way, it will be able to compete from now on with its greatest rival: Snapchat, an application that has a large number of users and that grows every month. once again.
