You can now save your Instagram live streams to replay for 24 hours
Instagram today is rolling out the option of saving your public live broadcasts to your Instagram story, where they can be replayed by your followers for the next 24 hours. Starting today, you can tap “share” after your broadcast has ended to add it to your Instagram story — or tap the toggle button to discard it. It’s a new feature for Instagram stories, which the company said today has 250 million daily users — up from 200 million in April. And it represents a new effort to kick-start a format that seems to have stalled across every social network.
Among the big live-streaming players, Instagram’s ephemeral streams are unique. As soon as you stop broadcasting, your video disappears forever. (Twitter’s Periscope started off this way,…
