Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone
Disappearing messages and Stories
Recorded year2011
Snapchat's photos vanish after viewing; its 2013 Stories of 24-hour posts are copied by Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook.
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- SmartphoneRecorded · 1994enables
- Camera phoneRecorded · 1999enables
Led to
No connections of this kind are recorded.
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.