Social media platforms copying features from each other is nothing new anymore. In this context Signal We can say that it will finally take a step into a format that it has been too late for. InstagramLike Facebook and others, Signal Stories He jumps into his wagon. The privacy-focused messaging app started beta testing of a short-lived Stories feature this week. Users can share video, image and text based messages with their friends. Stories It will disappear after 24 hours.
Like the rest of the platform, Signal’s Stories has end-to-end encryption. Users will be able to choose with whom to share them. Besides groups and private friend lists, you can choose to share a story with all your connections. If you choose to post a story to a group, others can react, reply and share.
Even Signal will adapt to the Stories format!
For now, the only people who will see Stories are other beta testers. If you don’t want to see Stories in Signal, you can turn it off in settings. However, this will prevent you from posting your own Stories. It’s not yet clear whether Stories will help Signal get people to spend more time on the app or even bring in new users. Instagram made one of Snapchat’s most used features famous with its take on Stories. It’s now a core part of the Instagram experience. Still, not every platform that has tried Stories has adhered to it. In 2021, Twitter and LinkedIn discontinued the Stories features less than a year later.