{"id":56140,"date":"2013-11-22T23:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56140"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:56","slug":"rumor-instagram-working-on-private-messaging-to-compete-with-snapchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-instagram-working-on-private-messaging-to-compete-with-snapchat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Instagram working on private messaging to compete with Snapchat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a <a title=\"Report: Snapchat turned down $1 billion+ offer from Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/report-snapchat-turned-down-1-billion-offer-from-facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">failed bid<\/a> to buy <a title=\"Snapchat download links on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/snapchat:iphone-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat<\/a>, Facebook is reportedly working on its own private messaging feature for <a title=\"Instagram for Android review and download\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>. <em>GigaOM<\/em> is reporting that <a title=\"Facebook news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> is also working on a group messaging feature. These two new features are rumored to debut before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Although details about Instagram&#8217;s private and group messaging are scarce, it makes sense for Facebook to integrate them into its app. Snapchat has a much younger audience than Facebook; an audience which Facebook is losing and wants to gain back.<\/p>\n<p>The main question is whether or not Instagram will use self-destructing images as part of its private messaging feature. Snapchat rose to popularity because of its self-destructing photos, which help to lower the pressure of sharing something that will stay on the Internet (or someone&#8217;s phone) forever.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat already has an established user base and it&#8217;s questionable whether Facebook can woo users with copies of Snapchat&#8217;s features.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/rumor-aol-in-talks-to-sell-winamp-to-microsoft\">Rumor: AOL in talks to sell Winamp to Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/is-fallout-4-about-to-be-announced\">Is Fallout 4 about to be announced?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-play-store-could-be-coming-to-blackberry-10\">Google Play Store could be coming to BlackBerry 10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"GigaOM\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/11\/22\/what-is-instagrams-next-big-thing-messaging-perhaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GigaOM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a failed bid to buy Snapchat, Facebook is reportedly working on its own private messaging feature for Instagram. GigaOM is reporting that Facebook is also working on a group messaging feature. These two new features are rumored to debut before the end of this year. Although details about Instagram&#8217;s private and group messaging are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-instagram-working-on-private-messaging-to-compete-with-snapchat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rumor: Instagram working on private messaging to compete with Snapchat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2354],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-56140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioninstagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331762,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions\/331762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=56140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}