These are the news of Instagram Stories
Instagram continues to add juicy features ready to make even more of its most direct competitors pupate. Thus, yesterday he announced through his own Instagram account, that an update loaded with news has arrived. Could it be that the Christmas holidays are approaching and you want to give us some presents?
And in its recent trend of adding functions that other applications already had (we don't want to name, again, Snapchat) now , once you make a video, you can add stickers and stickers to enrich your video, give it a more creative context, share that Christmas card It's getting late and even paint with a candy cane brush, very appropriate for these holidays.
You can easily access the stickers tool by pressing the smiley face icon, right next to the editing tool, a once you've made the video (we don't have the stickers in the live videos yet). Once clicked, a drop-down screen will show you the available stickers: there are not many new ones, for now, but they are all closely related to these festivities in which We see ourselves immersed: this is how we have the Christmas tree, the tacky Christmas sweater, the gingerbread man, as well as being able to set the time at which we were making the video as well as the city in which we are. Of course, once the sticker is placed, we will be able to place it where we want, orient it according to our liking and adjust its size so that we have the perfect video
In addition to the Christmas stickers, which will only be offered for a limited time to parties, you can place the usual stickers such as smileys, animals, signs and symbols, etc, etc. And the news is not over yet, Instagram gives us more. It will be that this year we have behaved well.
The second novelty is that, finally, we are going to be able to record a video without having to keep pressing the button. We will be able to say goodbye to having to use only one hand. Something as basic as that, and to which we are more than accustomed, simply, when we recorded a normal video with our mobile camera, it was not yet implanted in the Instagram Stories.You can access the hands-free function by sliding the options cursor to the right.
Everything else, of course, remains intact: on the Stories screen we can send a live video, delayed, record a Boomerang and access the hands-free One more step for Instagram, which is still willing to make even more of an impact on its most direct competitor, Snapchat, that sees its user drain becoming more noticeable . In June of this year, Snapchat had 150 million active users, a figure that is not inconsiderable but remains in its infancy when confronted with the giant of Mark Zuckerberg, 600 million It is clear who has won the battle. Now it remains to be seen if he will remain on the throne or some social network will come, likefrom Prisma , to take the throne from him. Honestly, we see it as highly unlikely. We will be attentive to the new movements of Facebook and Instagram for 2017.
