On Monday , Snapchat launched 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 user - generated content curation ; once Snapchat photo editors have selected a snap , the computer vision technology will view 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 customer engagement in sharing videos and photos on the Live Stories website ; more content also allows 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.