WhatsApp is the latest Facebook product to clone Snapchat stories

Here’s another gift from Facebook to Snapchat on the latter’s road to an initial public offering: WhatsApp has cloned Snapchat’s popular stories format and is using it to replace its old text-based status messages. The feature begins rolling out to WhatsApp’s billion-plus users today on Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone.
As on Snapchat, WhatsApp stories are posted from an in-app camera. Once you’ve taken a photo, you can adorn it with drawings, text, and emoji. Onc