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Thursday 04 August 2016 3:07 pm

Here are the best Twitter reactions to Instagram’s Snapchat-style Stories feature

By: Nina Edy

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Yesterday, Instagram unveiled a new feature, “Stories”. Much like the popular Snapchat feature, it will enable users to share their day-to-day activities through videos and pictures.

Other features include a 24-hour time frame, which means your stories will disappear after 24 hours. Being able to add emojis and texts to pictures and videos, sending to a list of followers as well as blocking certain people from seeing it – basically many of the features which make Snapchat unique.

Users took to the web to express their views. Let’s just say they weren’t completely impressed….

https://twitter.com/IAmJohnMcMahon/status/761162719051513856

https://twitter.com/ladyice_em/status/761161011151958016

https://twitter.com/nikhilwad/status/760670617876267008

https://twitter.com/shawnonymousfg/status/761160881908486144

https://twitter.com/Loretta126x/status/760736053351243776

https://twitter.com/jackdbrody/status/760533366659649537

https://twitter.com/jackdbrody/status/760533680750071808

https://twitter.com/televisionary/status/760613294029676544

https://twitter.com/josiahstewart11/status/760664719791456256

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