All Things D, on the word of sources familiar with the matter, reported that Facebook is presently testing its individual built-in-house version of a “Snapchat-like” app, a messaging application which lets clients to share impermanent photo messages with one another.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) intends to release the app in the coming weeks, sources stated, any time before the completion of the year.
Like “Messenger” and “Camera,” Facebook’s latest app is unrelated and distinct from the key Facebook app. After the introduction, this will bring Facebook’s app total up to four different apps and five, if oneconsidersInstagram.
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Snapchat has swelled intensely this year owing to its exclusive feature that lets users send photos that are given expiry dates. For instance, an image can be set to 10 seconds, later which time it is removed from the sender and recipient’s phones, as well as Snapchat’sparticular service.
All Things Dstated Facebook’s app will comprise a same ‘self-destructing’ feature which could leave Facebook open to further sensitive images from users, since Snapchat has hit news as a “sexting” app.
Facebook’s latest app is one more in a string of the firm’s hostile movements into the friend-to-friend messages space.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has, obviously, been associated with a move to purchaseWhatsApp lately and there’s slight doubt that the firm can do a lot more on mobile. Itsacquisition of Instagram,presentlyoverwhelmed by fresh issues around whether Twitter try for it, has revealed that Mark Zuckerberg is ready to release apps that are separate to its key service, but there are some questions over a potentialSnapchatrival.
Given that it decided to purchaseInstagram for afixed $1 billion, Facebook might be projected to express interest in buyingSnapchat outright, mainly as it is far less recognized and improbable to fetch such a substantial price.