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Marcus says the app's Snapchat Stories clone Messenger Day is off to a good start.

Facebook has expanded a test of a Snapchat Stories clone feature, called Messenger Day, to users of its app in Australia.

Most notably, Zuckerberg revealed that WhatsApp now has 1 billion daily users, and 250 million daily users of WhatsApp Status — its Snapchat Stories clone.

Its Snapchat Stories clone Instagram Stories hit 150 million daily users just 5 months after launch, and TechCrunch reported that an extensive set of sources believe Instagram Stories is stealing users from Snapchat.

Its Snapchat Stories clone WhatsApp Status now has 250 million daily users, and could host vertical video ads between friends» content the way Instagram does.

The app's Snapchat Stories clone Messenger Day launched in March to heavy criticism, with some saying the broadcast social media feature doesn't fit in the chat utility and stole screen space from the message threads.

Facebook is combining its Snapchat Stories clone with features Snapchat can't match.

Facebook is combining its Snapchat Stories clone with features Snapchat can't match in a bid to boost usage.

On the outside, Snapchat Stories clones WhatsApp Status and Instagram Stories now have 300 million daily users each.

Not exact matches

They can then share this content to a Snapchat clone called Facebook Stories that appears above News Feed on mobile and works similarly to Instagram's 24 - hour ephemeral slideshows.

Facebook Stories might feel redundant because 300 million people use its other Snapchat clones on Instagram and WhatsApp.

The company had seen daily active user growth sag from 17 percent to under 3 per quarter after the launch of Facebook's Snapchat clone Instagram Stories.

It's a case of Snapchat copying Instagram back after the Facebook - owned app added @ mentions to Stories back in November 2016, just a few months after Instagram cloned Snapchat's whole Stories feature.

However, it saw groundbreaking success with Instagram stories, another Snapchat clone.

And if users saw Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp's Stories features as uncool clones or redundant as a set, it might have had to limit its attack on Snapchat to just one of its core apps.

Messaging is the heart of Snapchat, so after cloning and augmenting Stories, Instagram is hoping to boost intimate usage of Direct with privacy controls not found elsewhere.

In a slight to Snapchat, Zuckerberg also noted that Instagram and WhatsApp are the No. 1 and No. 2 most popular Story - sharing products, referring to those apps» clones of Snapchat Stories.

This is a notable reversal of the typical pattern we've seen of Instagram cloning Snapchat features, but it's a good one for users since GIF stickers for Stories are basically the greatest thing ever invented on social media.

With all its connections and reach, Instagram could recruit publishers and clone Snapchat's new Discover page like it did Stories.

While Facebook's Snapchat clone Instagram Stories has achieved massive popularity, other knock - offs it has made haven't fared as well.

Meanwhile, Snapchat's growth has slowed significantly since the launch of clone Instagram Stories.

At face value, the end of Facebook Direct could appear to be a win for Snapchat, which sees ephemeral messaging as its primary use case and differentiator after all of Facebook's apps cloned its Stories feature.

Limited Content Portability — When Spectacles debuted, Snapchat clone Instagram Stories had only just launched.

Instagram Stories has blossomed from a Snapchat clone into an integral part of the world's largest dedicated visual communication app in the first year since its launch.

The increasing audience and interoperability of Facebook's four Stories products should worry Snapchat, which saw daily user growth plummet from a stellar 17.2 % per quarter before Instagram's clone launched last year to a soggy 4.2 % in Q2 2017.

Facebook's Snapchat clone is expanding beyond mobile devices.Facebook Stories, a feature that lets you share multiple photos and videos as part of a visual collection atop news feed, is only available in the Facebook and Messenger apps for mobile devices,... Read more

Facebook Stories, the shameless Snapchat clone that sits above the News Feed on Facebook's mobile app, is now rolling out to Facebook's desktop site.

The circular, view - with - your - phone - in - any - orientation video format Snap pioneered also gives its Snapchat app something that its popular clone Instagram Stories can't copy.

Of course, there's also Stories, a Snapchat clone that has proven an extremely popular way to share snippets of your day — if you're into that.

That's proved a winning strategy for Instagram's clone, according to a dozen analytics providers, social media celebrities, and talent managers who told TechCrunch they've seen a decline in Snapchat Stories usage since Instagram Stories launched on August 2nd.

Though these Snapchat clones might irk some critics and long - time Snap loyalists, visual communication is the future and Stories are the new News Feed.

Snapchat has needed something new and special to kick some life into the service after it started getting out - competed by clone Instagram Stories, which now has 250 million daily users compared to Snapchat's 166 million.

«Everyone has forgotten that Instagram Stories is a Snapchat clone.»

The Facebook Snapchat cloning strategy kicked off in August 2016 when the company debuted the disappearing Stories format on its photo and video sharing platform Instagram, clearly the most natural home for the clone.

It launched Messenger Day, WhatsApp Status and Facebook Stories — all clones of Snapchat Stories.

Instagram Stories is doing so well, the app wants to ensure you don't just scroll by its Snapchat clone.

Today, more of that vision was brought to bear: Facebook unveiled «Messenger Day,» which is essentially another clone of Snapchat's story function, where users can post images and videos to Facebook Messenger that last for the day, and don't have to be sent as messages to a specific user.

And with Stories cloned, Spectacles selling slowly, user count growing at a crawl and augmented reality filters becoming table stakes, Snapchat will need some serious innovation to keep up the competition against Instagram.

Further competition has depressed the share price, as Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status now each have 250 million users, making the clones much bigger than Snapchat as a whole.

Snapchat may have pioneered the Stories format, but Instagram has been rapidly iterating with features like Super Zoom and Highlights to extend its user count lead over the app it cloned.

Facebook could jumpstart its Snapchat clone by letting social media stars and public figures post Stories publicly.

Instagram Stories, its Snapchat clone now used by daily more people than Snapchat itself, is coming to the web.

Instagram's Stories, which allows users to share photos and video for up to 24 hours, might be a Snapchat clone, but it's the most successful one to date.

It appears Instagram's Stories clone has stopped Snapchat's most monetizable feature dead in its tracks.

On Thursday, Facebook's Instagram announced that over 200 million people were now using the Instagram Stories feature every day — suggesting that reports about the adverse impact the Snapchat clone has had on Snap's growth are at least partly true.

Like Snapchat Stories and the many clones that have followed including Facebook - owned Instagram Stories, Messenger Day takes the format of sharing photos and videos with effects and annotations with friends for 24 hours.

In 2016, Facebook - owned Instagram added the «Stories» feature - a nearly identical clone of Snapchat's feature of the same name.

Facebook Stories, the company's latest Snapchat clone, is baked into its main app.

Because the company now has a Stories feature — another Snapchat feature clone — and it wants users to gravitate to it.

Ever since Snapchat launched its Stories feature, we've seen endless clones from the likes of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc..