Instagram has introduced a new Camera First app thread,
which aims to share content with close friends, as another step against its
rival app Snap Chat.
In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook-owned Instagram said of
the new app, saying it was a new and unique place for close friends to connect.
If a user uses threads, he or she will be able to share
messages, photos, videos and storage with a specific list of friends and not
necessarily share that content with everyone.
The app also offers status or auto status support, which
lets friends know where you are right now at home, and the process will be
automated, which doesn't require fingering itself.
Users will be able to share location, speed and battery life
with their close friends, while text, photo and video messages are available.
This app has been introduced when Instagram announced the
deletion of its messaging app directory in May, which has been in operation
since 2017.
The company said that beta testers did not want to go to
another app from Instagram to send the message, but the company still showed
interest in developing a new messaging app.
The company believes that a messaging app that is used only
to connect with close friends will prove to be more popular, while also forcing
its users to spend more time inside the app than snap chat.
Facebook and Instagram have been trying to erase the
popularity of Snapchat for many years and is another attempt to end the
anti-threads app.
Like SnapChat, threads will automatically send updates to
the close friends list.
SnapChat introduced SnapMap feature this year, which allows
users to see where their friends are and similar features are being provided in
the threads.
