Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Facebook acquired $billion for MSQRD and now Testing MSQRD Filters for real time Facebook feeds like Photos and Videos



As every one knows that Facebook recently bought MSQRD for $3 billion and now integration process is going on into real time Facebook feeds like photos and videos. Actually Facebook try to mask like Snapchat kind of integration and try to apply various filters for Live videos, selfies, and other photo content,  and upgrade to the Profile Frames feature it already offered users.

The new feature is being tested on Android and iOS users in Canada, and only iOS users in Brazil, TechCrunch confirmed, citing Facebook Product Manager Sachin Monga.  "The way that people share has changed a lot. 12 years ago, most of what was shared was text. Now, mobile changed things a little bit, but we didn't really change our  tools. If you look at what people are sharing, now it's mostly photos, and soon it will be mostly videos. Our strategy is really simple. We want to make it really easy   to share photos and videos," Monga told the publication.

There is no word on when Facebook plans to make it available globally. Once the camera icon is opened within the app, the feature will be visible. It allows users to use  several themed face filters - including some for the on-going Rio 2016 Olympics.

This isn't the first feature that Facebook has copied from Snapchat. The company even introduced Instagram Stories, a 24-hour self-destructing post feature into its photo app recently. Facebook was even reportedly testing the same feature on the main social platform, but killed it in its testing phase itself.

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