Instagram Stories Is Finally Bigger Than Snapchat After Copying Many of Its Features

It now has 200 million daily active users

After months of relentlessly copying Snap Inc.’s features for its own version of vertical video, Instagram says it now has 200 million people using the Stories feature on a daily basis.

Today, the Facebook-owned platform announced the latest total, putting it ahead of Snapchat’s own official count of 158 million. (Snap Inc. reported the total earlier this year in its S-1 filing ahead of the company’s IPO.)

Instagram is growing at a more rapid pace than Snap as it took just a few months to reach 200 million from the 150

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