Facebook “Messenger Day” is the chat app’s new Snapchat Stories clone

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TechCrunch / Josh Constine, Natasha Lomas, and John Biggs / Sep 30, 2016

“By using the international popularity of Messenger to spread the Stories format, Facebook could boost retention and return visits to its chat app while becoming the primary place where people post off-the-cuff lifecasting content before they get hooked on Snapchat.” —