Instagram Stories Now Lets People Share Info From Apps Like Spotify

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Stories Now Lets People Share Info From Apps Like Spotify

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is getting a new feature that’s straight out of

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’s past.

The photo-sharing app, owned by

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, will let people post information from apps directly to their

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Stories, which last for 24 hours. For example, while listening to a song on Spotify, someone would be able to tell their

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friends what title or album it is. People will also be able to directly share action shots from their GoPro apps.

In 2012,

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announced Open Graph, a feature that automatically posted songs you’re listening to, stories you’re reading and other activity, directly to your

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feed. Users didn’t love the forced transparency, and

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stopped pushing it a couple of years later. Now the company is taking a different tack with one crucial difference – letting users pick when they post, instead of having it happen automatically.

Historically,

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hasn’t let users share much from the outside world. Hyperlinks don’t even work, except in profiles. That was a conscious choice from the company’s founders, who wanted to make sure that everything posted on the app was a reflection of what a user created, not what they curated from others. It helped

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avoid some of

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’s problems, like viral fake news.

Stories is a part of the app where

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is, increasingly and intentionally, breaking its own rules. Within Stories,

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already allows sharing of news stories, for example. And now, with direct-sharing from applications, people won’t have to screenshot their Spotify playlists in order to post them.

Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says that Stories – a feature invented by

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’s smaller competitor, Snap – will be an increasingly important part of the company’s future. So far, Stories are the most popular on

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and WhatsApp,

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’s chat app.

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