On Monday, Snapchat expanded their Live Stories feature in an attempt to gain more user-generated content per story. The company is also testing a new way for users to share stories with friends and family on the social network. The feature uses computer-generated content curation; once Snapchat Story editors have selected a snap, the computer vision technology will find other snaps of the exact moment but from different angles. Facebook and Twitter have already experimented with algorithm-based curation. Snapchat hopes the increased user-generated content encourages greater user engagement in sharing videos and photos on the Live Stories feature; more content also provides more opportunities to sell advertising.
On Monday, Snapchat expanded their Live Stories feature in an attempt to gain more user-generated content per story. Users of Live Story can now swipe to view different angles of the same moment. The feature uses computer-generated content curation; once Snapchat Story editors have selected a snap, the computer vision technology will find other snaps of the exact moment but from different angles. Facebook and Twitter have already experimented with algorithm-based curation. Snapchat hopes the increased user-generated content encourages greater user engagement in sharing videos and photos on the Live Stories feature; more content also provides more opportunities to sell advertising.