So today Facebook took yet another swipe at Snapchat with the re-release of
its ephemeral sharing app Slingshot for iOS and Android.
Not exact matches
It is like navigating from its original structure and venturing into something different from what we all have come to identify the
ephemeral picture
sharing app with.
Yesterday, the dating
app released an
ephemeral photo feature, which lets users
share pictures with their existing Tinder matches.
The
app's
ephemeral nature, combined with the fact that Snapchat's coverage was based almost entirely on content
shared by its users, made it a useful tool that provided a close look at what happened on the ground that day.
This
app comes from the Facebook Creative Labs, the team behind a handful of specific - purpose - based
apps released last year, including: Groups, an
app for communicating and
sharing photos with groups; Slingshot, an
ephemeral messaging service; and Paper, a Flipboard - like reader
app.
Just a few days ago, Facebook completed its Snapchat cloning process by adding a new feature to its mobile
app that lets users
share ephemeral messages, including videos and images.
Blink, a new mobile application for
ephemeral messaging, is debuting today on the Apple
App Store allowing users to text, plus
share photos, and soon videos, with other friends as well as with groups.
Snap is the creator of the Snapchat
app, a service popular for
sharing ephemeral messages and stories.
There was Slingshot, an
ephemeral messaging
app much in the same style as Snapchat; Riff, which let users collaborate with friends on videos and
share them in the
app and on Facebook; and Rooms, a group messaging service that was like a modern version of the chat rooms and message boards from the early days of the web.
As the name suggests, Bolt
app is especially designed as an
ephemeral messaging
app for instantly
sharing photos and videos.
Facebook is rolling out
ephemeral stories and messaging in its mobile
apps today, bringing the popular format for
sharing photos and videos to more than 1.65 billion people a day.