- Re/code, Tuesday, January 3, 2017 8:43 AM
Recode considers all the times that Facebook tried to be more like Snapchat, in 2016. As it explains: “Instead of trying to replicate Snapchat’s entire product, which required users to
download yet another app and hope their friends would, too, Facebook is tackling Snapchat one feature at a time by building them into its
existing products: Facebook, Instagram and
Messenger.”
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If you can't beat 'em, "borrow" their ideas. "Trending" on Facebook has surely knocked some of the life out of the same idea on Twitter, so much so, that much of the fake-news criticism has fallen on Facebook.