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Facebook Tests ‘Stories’ Tool in Latest Clone of Rival Snapchat
ByFacebook Inc. hasn’t been shy about copying Snapchat, its smaller social-media rival. Now it’s unveiling the biggest and boldest clone so far: a feature resembling Snapchat’s Stories, directly within the Facebook application.
Snapchat Stories are short annotated videos and photos that people post to their entire audience, viewable for 24 hours only. The feature was already knocked off by Instagram, Facebook’s photo-sharing app, in August -- and that version is now used by 150 million people daily, about as many as use the entire Snapchat application.