Instagram continues to imitate Snapchat features with the latest news of Instagram possibly working on disappearing direct messages. The possible new feature was discovered by a reverse engineering specialist and was later confirmed by the official Instagram PR team twitter account in the tweet below.
.@InstagramComms said the feature is still in early development https://t.co/nnnHbugSxj
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 19, 2020
It was also previously reported that Twitter is also working on a disappearing messaging feature called “fleets”
People often tell us that they don’t feel comfortable Tweeting because Tweets can be seen and replied to by anybody, feel permanent and performative (how many Likes & Retweets will this get!?). Many of us can probably empathize with this: https://t.co/LW2xWlctZi
— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) March 4, 2020