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Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Snapchat, Snapchat, Instagram, Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories

Snapchat had a feature called stories where you could post random photos and they'd disappear after 24 hours. The pressure wasn't so intense, and teens loved it. Keven sistram was asked about this time at southby southwest in 20 19. But eventually the snapchat became too big to ignore. Instagram would copy stories and not even bother to call it something else.

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