Facebook accidentally released incomplete application Slingshot
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Facebook unveiled a new photo messedzhingovoe application designed for sharing photos and videos, as well as commentaries. As in Snapchat, all images transferred to the receiving user can delete. In the Facebook application confirmed Slingshot, but do not say when it will be released. Publications The Verge and TechCrunch reported the application, but at the moment Facebook has removed it from public access.
According to the publication, the application has a mechanism of "locking" images, ie the recipient photos can not capture the other users if the original sender has forbidden further transmission. Slingshot In appearance also reminds Snapchat. Note that initially about Slingshot became known in April this year, but then publishing the Financial Times reported that Facebook is working on a video application.
Now about videofunktsionale not reported. FT writes that the head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg personally oversaw the creation of an application as soon as he could not agree with Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy creators Snapchat. Recall that in 2012, Facebook bought fotoobmenny service Instagram for $ 1 billion. A year later, Facebook negotiated the purchase Snapchat for $ 3 billion, but could not agree on the terms of purchase.
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