Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil
Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
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Tweeted 62 days before launch http://techcrunch.com/...
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@joshconstine
Josh Constine
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“TikTok deserve a ton of credit for popularizing this format” Instagram's product director Robby Stein admits https://www.youtube.com/... tip @techmeme
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@mdnoshaughnessy
Michael O'Shaughnessy
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Instagram killed Snapchat with stories, will this kill TikTok? It seems to me that it won't, the primary success of TikTok is that it's built to create and spread meme videos and IG's story function is more or less private https://twitter.com/...
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@joshconstine
Josh Constine
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Instagram unveils its remarkably decent TikTok clone boostrapped from Stories & Explore. But can it teach its users to remix? https://techcrunch.com/...
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
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It's weird to say “American Knock-off” because we usually see the other way around 👀 https://techcrunch.com/...
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@ankitv
Gadgetwala
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Grab your popcorn. It's Reels vs TikTok! https://twitter.com/...