{"id":4727,"date":"2017-04-13T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/instagram-stories-hits-200m-users-surpassing-snapchat-as-it-copies-its-ar-stickers.html"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:49:00","slug":"instagram-stories-hits-200m-users-surpassing-snapchat-as-it-copies-its-ar-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/instagram-stories-hits-200m-users-surpassing-snapchat-as-it-copies-its-ar-stickers.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat as it copies its AR stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cMove last and take things\u201d seems to be Facebook\u2019s new motto.<\/p>\n

Now the parent company\u2019s top Snapchat clone Instagram Stories has hit 200 million daily active users<\/a>, surpassing the last count of 161 million that Snapchat announced alongside its IPO<\/a>. Instagram Stories launched in August, hit 100 million dailies in October, and 150 million in January, so it\u2019s hardly slowing as it grows. Meanwhile, Instagram is getting faster at copying even Snapchat\u2019s most technologically advanced features with a series of global iOS and Android updates.<\/p>\n

Exactly one year ago, Snapchat launched augmented reality \u201c3D stickers\u201d and text you can stick to objects in videos, which then stay stuck to them and grow or shrink as they move around. Today Instagram launches a clone of this feature called Pinning for stickers and text, with an added improvement of a video timeline for scrubbing back and forth for picking when to Pin something and demoing how it looks.<\/p>\n

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Snapchat launched these augmented reality stickers a year ago; Instagram added them today<\/p>\n

Instagram tells me Pinning relies on \u201cfairly standard region tracking technology,\u201d and was built because \u201cwe see people frequently sharing their lives through videos, so we wanted to enable our stickers to move through videos as one more way to mix your personality with the moments you\u2019re capturing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Instagram also now has its own version of Snapchat\u2019s Scissors<\/a> feature that launched in December for cutting out a part of an image, turning it into a sticker and pasting it on whatever you\u2019d like. Instagram\u2019s \u201cSelfie Stickers\u201d lets you open a camera from the Stickers dock, shoot a mini-selfie, add a fade or circle frame to it and then paste it into your images from then on. But you can\u2019t just cut something out of your already shot content.<\/p>\n

Instagram is adding Custom Geostickers drawn by local community members for Tokyo, Madrid, London and Chicago. It launched this copy<\/a> of Snapchat\u2019s illustrated geofilters last month in New York City and Jakarta. Just like Snapchat, your recently used stickers now show up at the top of the tray. And Instagram\u2019s hands-free camera now includes a countdown to recording, so you know when to ham it up.<\/p>\n

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Instagram rolls out more custom geostickers<\/p>\n

You can see that Instagram is getting faster and faster at cloning Snapchat\u2019s features as we recap the timeline:<\/p>\n