Neowin News Feed for: Stories

Instagram fixes annoying bug that slowed down people's reach

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:32:01 +0000

Instagram has fixed an annoying issue on its platform that many users accused of reducing their content's reach. Read more...

Stories are the new way to earn money on Facebook

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:24:02 +0000

Expanding its content monetization program, Facebook now offers creators a new way to earn extra cash. Read more...

Instagram spotted working on a 'Super Like' option for its app

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:18:01 +0000

Meta-owned social media platform Instagram is readying a new feature to interact with Stories. It's reported that Instagram is working on a "Super Like" option people can use to appreciate content. Read more...

Snapchat is planning to make navigation and UI for Stories similar to its Spotlight

Anushe Fawaz — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:28:01 +0000

Snap Inc. in its earnings call for Q4 2023 revealed that it is planning to bring a unifying experience for its Spotlight and Stories capabilities in terms of navigation and interface. Read more...

Instagram starts testing multiple audience lists for Stories

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:24:01 +0000

Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that the company is testing the ability to create multiple lists. The new feature will allow users to share specific Stories with specific groups of followers. Read more...

Telegram turns 10, launches Stories, Dual Camera Mode, and more

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:04:01 +0000

Telegram has just turned 10 years old and to celebrate is releasing a spate of new features including Stories. Telegram Stories are unique because they let you edit them after publishing them. Read more...

Telegram Stories feature is now available, but there's a catch

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:02:01 +0000

The long-awaited Telegram Stories feature has started rolling out to users. The feature comes with detailed controls such as the ability to choose the targeted audience and expiration time. Read more...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirms Stories are coming to the messaging app next month

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:14:02 +0000

The instant messaging app Telegram is getting the Stories feature soon, CEO Pavel Durov announced. Telegram Stories will be accessible at the top of the Chats page with a compact expendable UI. Read more...

The limited time YouTube Stories videos are going away for good on June 26

John Callaham — Thu, 25 May 2023 23:06:01 +0000

YouTube Stories launched in 2017 under the name Reels and were supposed to compete with Instagram and Snapchat with videos that would disappear after seven days. Now they are going away for good. Read more...

Microsoft's Bing Chat adds Bing Image Creator for making AI generated art

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:42:01 +0000

Bing Image Creator will allow Bing Chat preview users to create images based on prompts to the chatbot AI while it is in Creative mode. Microsoft is also adding Visual Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0. Read more...

Brace yourself, stories are now coming to OneDrive

Usama Jawad — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:54:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that stories are now coming to OneDrive. The feature has an invite-only implementation allowing friends and family to engage with your content in an ad-free feed. Read more...

The Xbox app is getting stories, because why not?

Usama Jawad — Tue, 03 May 2022 18:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that its Xbox app on Android and iOS is now getting stories, which function as you would expect. Another feature in tow is Quality of Service priority tagging. Read more...

LinkedIn to make its disappearing video feature disappear for good

Chandrakant Isi — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:46:01 +0000

LinkedIn is getting rid of its Stories feature, which enabled users to post ephemeral videos. The idea, borrowed from Instagram, did not take off on Microsoft's business oriented social media site. Read more...

Now TikTok is testing Snapchat-like Stories

Usama Jawad — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:46:01 +0000

It seems like everybody and their uncle is implementing Snapchat-like Stories nowadays. Multiple TikTok users have spotted that the company is currently testing the capability on a limited scale. Read more...

Instagram introduces a new translation tool that supports over 90 languages

Fiza Ali — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:30:01 +0000

To make the app more inclusive, Instagram is bringing its latest translation tool for users to view translations for foreign text in Stories. The new feature will be available across the globe. Read more...

Twitter is killing off Fleets, just nine months after its global launch

Usama Jawad — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:42:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it is killing off Fleets next month. This news comes in just nine months after the feature's global launch. The company says that Fleets was not being used as intended. Read more...

Microsoft announces game stories in the Xbox app

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:46:01 +0000

The Xbox app is getting a new feature that will display a row of stories for users on iOS and Android. However, you'll only see stories from your favorite game brands, not from your friends. Read more...

Twitter slows down Fleets rollout due to performance and stability issues

Jefferson Mangubat — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:32:01 +0000

Fleets won't be coming to those who have not received it yet anytime soon as Twitter is slowing down its rollout to the general public in order to fix some performance and stability problems. Read more...

Twitter begins rolling out its Stories-like Fleets feature to all users

Abhay V — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:06:01 +0000

Twitter announced that its ephemeral content sharing feature, Fleets, is rolling out to all iOS and Android users. With Fleets, users can share tweets, photos, and videos that expire in 24 hours. Read more...

YouTube Music could soon let you share songs as Instagram and Snapchat stories

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:30:01 +0000

YouTube is working on adding the ability to share the music you are listening to as a story on Instagram and Snapchat. The feature will be similar to what's already available on Spotify & Apple Music. Read more...

Slack is working to add 'Stories' and a push-to-talk audio chat capability later this year

Abhay V — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:58:02 +0000

Slack's CEO said in an interview that the firm is prototyping an Instagram-like 'Stories' feature and push-to-talk audio chatting capabilities to be introduced later this year to improve remote work. Read more...

Web Stories are now available on Google Discover

Usman Khan Lodhi — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:18:01 +0000

The Mountain View firm has added a dedicated carousel for Web Stories to its Discover app on both Android and iOS. The feature is presently available in the U.S., Brazil, and India. Read more...

Twitter launches Fleets, its Stories-like feature, in India

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:00:01 +0000

First announced in March, Fleets allow Twitter users to share a tweet or photos and videos that will be available on their profiles for only 24 hours and cannot get Likes, Retweets, or replies. Read more...

LinkedIn is internally testing a Snapchat-like Stories feature

Abhay V — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:06:01 +0000

Microsoft-owned professional networking site, LinkedIn, is currently testing a Stories feature akin to what is found on Snapchat and Instagram. The firm aims to cater to younger users with Stories. Read more...

Facebook confirms it is testing merging your News Feed and Stories

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 06:32:01 +0000

Facebook is testing a new way to navigate the News Feed by incorporating posts such as status updates and media content into a carousel of feed that puts them alongside Facebook Stories. Read more...

Facebook's own Stories surpass 300 million daily users leaving Snapchat behind, again

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:40:01 +0000

Facebook today revealed the combined number of daily active users of the Stories feature in its main app as well as in Messenger, putting it well ahead of Snapchat's preceding implementation. Read more...

Instagram makes uploading to Stories more convenient with new update

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:32:01 +0000

Instagram has updated its app, giving users the ability to upload up to ten images or videos all at once. The new update is now available for Android and will be arriving on iOS in the coming weeks. Read more...

Instagram will soon tell on you if you screenshot a Story

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:42:01 +0000

Instagram is once again "borrowing" a feature from its Snapchat competitor. The firm is now currently testing screenshot notifications for screenshots that are taken in public Stories. Read more...

Snapchat introduces Memories; Windows phone users collectively sigh

Rich Woods — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:38:01 +0000

Snapchat today introduced Memories, "a new way to save Snaps and Stories on Snapchat". Users can combine Memories into Stories, or they can combine Stories to create an even longer one. Read more...

Fancy a free copy of Office 2010 and a laptop to run it on?

Andrew Fairbairn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:00:37 +0000

Microsoft is looking for family, student or home business users of their successful Office suite to participate in the beta program for Office 2010. As part of the program, users will be loaned a laptop... Read more...

The Sims Life Stories Announced - We Are Doomed!

Todd Tanner — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:52:17 +0000

As one of EA's most successful franchises, it's not surprising when news of a new The Sims game emerges. Today EA has revealed a slightly different offering, abandoning the usual expansion releases ... Read more...

Vice City Stories Gets Site Overhaul, New Trailer

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:26:12 +0000

The long awaited follow up to the PSP's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has today received what Rockstar are calling a "giant official site update" as well as a third trailer - "In so... Read more...

The 10 least-convincing online success stories

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:21:39 +0000

Ever stumble accross a website and think "that'll never take off, what a stupid idea" only to return a few months later to see everyone talking about it? Well one blogger has compiled a list... Read more...

Site News: Hoax News Stories and Neowin Q3 Tournament.

Ross Dundas — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:55:25 +0000

I want to take a few minutes with you guys to comment on the news submissions that we have been recieving of late. I have come across several people "faking" links and therefore news stories.... Read more...

Hacker alters news stories on Yahoo

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:07:08 +0000

Sept. 19 — A computer security researcher was able to edit and alter wire stories posted on Yahoo.com's news pages this week, according to SecurityFocus.com. The researcher rewrote a story, subtly changing some facts... Read more...