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Instagram Takes Another Shot at Snapchat With Threads App

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Alex Heath
· · Source: The Information

A messaging app that opens to your phone’s camera and prioritizes connections with your closest friends. Sound familiar? You may be thinking of Snapchat. But that description also applies to Threads, a new standalone messaging app from Facebook-owned Instagram. Threads is based on Instagram’s “Close Friends” feature, which lets people share posts only with a shortlist of followers they...

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