Instagram only launched Stories last August and yet in April of this year, the company reported more than 200 million users of the feature, which was developed to take on Snapchat.

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Instagram's new Stories feature operates in an almost identical manner to Snapchat's. Users will find stories posted from people they follow at the top of their photo feed when logging into the app.

Instagram is adding a Snapchat-like map to see friends' locations and adding the option to repost in feed.

The feature closely mirrors Stories on Snapchat, where users upload Snaps to their Story for others to view. Those Snaps go away after 24 hours. It's one of several changes coming to Instagram.

Because Snapchat and Instagram Stories are so similar, look at the features each platform offers to determine which one will be the best for you. Have fun, play around, and experiment.

Just like Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories lets you take photos and short videos, doodle on them or add stickers, and upload them, before disappearing after 24 hours.

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Delmondo saw roughly a 40 percent decline in unique viewers across 21,500 Snapchat Stories analyzed from July (100%), before Instagram launched Stories, through November. Graph updated with Y-axis.

The move marks the latest salvo in the Instagram-Snapchat war, three years after Facebook tried to buy its popular competitor for $3 billion. Snapchat’s CEO Evan Spiegel turned down the offer.