Facebook Tests Disappearing Posts Feature
Facebook has quietly released a Snapchat-like feature that allows some users to set their posts to expire at a predetermined time. "We're running a small pilot of a feature on Facebook for iOS that lets people schedule deletion of their posts in advance," a spokesperson for the social network told TIME. The option, which is being offered to a small subset of users, allows them to set posts to delete anytime from 1 hour to 7 days after they are initially published, The Next Web reports. Facebook has released many features to select groups of users in the past before deciding to either roll them out larger or go back to the drawing board. Though Facebook hasn't publicly revealed what the tool actually looks like, some users have taken to Twitter to share screenshots. Last year, the social network reportedly turned down a 3 billion offer to buy Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send photos and videos that disappear within seconds of a recipient opening them. Market valuations from last month estimated Snapchat's value at 10 billion.