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Social media giant spins off new app for disappearing photos — sound familiar?

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Social media giant spins off new app for disappearing photos — sound familiar?
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TL;DR

Instagram has launched Instants, a new standalone app for sending disappearing photos to friends.
The app opens straight to the camera, and photos can’t be viewed again once they’re gone or after 24 hours.
Instagram already had this messaging function, but Meta has spun it into its own Snapchat-style app.


When Meta launched Threads in 2023, it was fairly clear what the goal was. The app looked a lot like Twitter (as it was still known for anothe

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