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Meta isintroducinga unexampled API that makes it easier to make and share a Facebook Story directly from a third - party screen background or World Wide Web app .
The societal networkingad titanfirst introducedStories to the main Facebook app in 2017 , emulate a feature it hadadded to Instagram the old yearas well as toMessengerandWhatsApp — these features were more or less “ borrowed”from Snapchat , serving as a more passing agency of share TV and image - based content that did n’t hang around on a exploiter ’s profile for timelessness .
While Facebook itself hasnorth of 3 billion users , Meta does n’t typically break out user numbers for Stories , though CEO Mark Zuckerberg did divvy up that it hadpassed 500 million users back in 2019 .
Meta has previouslyopened up accessto apportion content to Stories from other mobile apps , but with the newFacebook Stories API , it ’s now possible for content - focused Almighty software to integrate their web or screen background apps flat with Facebook Stories — this is likely aim at the more professional market , somewhat recognize by Meta , which touch to the novel Cartesian product as an “ enterprise solution . ”
move forward , apps that integrate with the new API will enable their users to partake in directly to Facebook Stories with minimal friction . For example , companies such asAdobe , CanvaandPicsartoffer tool specifically to make Facebook Stories , replete with image editors , templates , and other customizable tidbits — but at the goal of it all , the substance abuser has to download their tale and re - upload it to Facebook .
With the Facebook Stories API , developer can include a single button share direct inside their app , though this will of course require the app maker to implement Facebook Login assay-mark for the end substance abuser to grant admittance to their personal or business bill .
Apps that have already gone through the Facebook approval process wo n’t have to do so again to enter the Stories API .
