News & Reviews:   Stories

Today, Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO announced that the Telegram app will have Stories. Prior to this, Telegram was actually against it but as one of the most requested features by Telegram users, it will be launched soon in the Telegram way.

Instagram is rolling out a minor update that takes away Stories reactions from direct messages (DMs). It's said to declutter the DMs by relocating the reactions to the other corner.

Earlier, Instagram has confirmed the return of the chronological feed in 2022. It has proven that the platform does listen to its users by bringing the most loved post sequence back. However, it looks like another thing that users would like to have is coming as well, and it's posting Stories longer than 15 seconds.

If you've been enjoying adding a song to your Stories since the release of the feature, you'll like this new one that Instagram is testing. According to the source, the social media platform is testing a new option for users to add music to feed posts too!

You probably have heard of stories about an iPhone surviving the odds. Whether if it was underwater or falling from the skies, this story is about the latter. According to a short experience shared by dmloftus from an aviator forum, his iPhone X actually survived a drop from an altitude 11,000 feet above.

Today, Malaysians everywhere can now enjoy using Reels on their Instagram accounts. Reels is a new function that lets users create and edit short clips with actual audio and music, this includes a catalogue of international and local songs in any clips they create and share. 

Great news to the people who like to use Twitter because the company has rolled out a new feature which is Fleets, it is the same as the Instagram Stories. It is located on the top of the timeline, the users can post text, photos, videos, share tweets, and others can reply to your Fleets via DMs. Basically, it functions almost the same as the other platforms' Stories and it will disappear in 24 hours.

For those who regularly use Snapchat, the ability to post Stories to other platforms has long been a wish for them. Well, the wait is over as the developer has officially launched App Stories. First introduced last year, this feature allows users to post Stories in Snapchat to other apps.