{"id":66810,"date":"2014-05-19T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66810"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:13","slug":"facebook-to-take-on-snapchat-with-slingshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-take-on-snapchat-with-slingshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to take on Snapchat with Slingshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to rumors, Facebook is working on a Snapchat competitor app, code-named<strong> Slingshot<\/strong>. Like Snapchat, the app will let users send photos and videos with a limited lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Facebook is trying to get in on the ephemeral-messaging game; last year, it offered <a title=\"Report: Snapchat turned down $1 billion+ offer from Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/report-snapchat-turned-down-1-billion-offer-from-facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat $3 billion dollars <\/a>to buy the app, which Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel kindly declined. Now, Facebook is working on it&#8217;s own app that&#8217;s hoping to compete with the especially <strong>teen-friendly Snapchat<\/strong>, a market which Facebook is quickly losing. \u00a0As the Financial Times reports, Facebook has been working on the app for several months under the close supervision of Mark Zuckerburg himself.<\/p>\n<p>A simple interface will let users send quick photos or videos to each other that&#8217;ll disappear after a few seconds. It&#8217;s said to <strong>based on similar app TapTalk<\/strong>, which shows a grid of profile pictures that you tap or hold down on to send a photo or video.<\/p>\n<p>The app isn&#8217;t the first time Facebook&#8217;s tried going head-to-head with Snapchat, and with a name like Slingshot, there&#8217;s no question who they&#8217;re aiming it at. <strong>Poke<\/strong> was Facebook&#8217;s first attempt at a Snapchat-like messaging app, but after a year in the App Store and minimal downloads, it was discontinued this past March. Undeterred, Facebook continues to focus on mobile, with a whole slew of standalone apps, including Messenger, planned for this year.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is yet to confirm the project, but sources close to the social network claim that the app could be released<strong> as early as this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Zuzanna on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suzieblaszQwicz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@suzieblaszQwicz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Facebook 10.0 for iOS out now\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-10-0-for-ios-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook 10.0 for iOS out now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Snapchat introduces video calls and chat\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/snapchat-introduces-video-calls-and-chat\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat introduces video calls and chat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Facebook Messenger update makes it easy to share photos and video\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-quick-photo-video-sharing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger update makes it easy to share photos and video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to rumors, Facebook is working on a Snapchat competitor app, code-named Slingshot. Like Snapchat, the app will let users send photos and videos with a limited lifespan. It&#8217;s no secret that Facebook is trying to get in on the ephemeral-messaging game; last year, it offered Snapchat $3 billion dollars to buy the app, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-take-on-snapchat-with-slingshot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook to take on Snapchat with Slingshot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2357],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-66810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsnapchat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66810","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\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330736,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66810\/revisions\/330736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66810"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=66810"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=66810"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=66810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}