{"id":4959,"date":"2017-09-22T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2017-09-22T18:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:18:36","slug":"instagram-adds-face-filters-live-video-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/instagram-adds-face-filters-live-video-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram adds face filters to live video broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular photo-sharing platform Instagram has introduced face filters for live video broadcasts through the app.<!--more-->To use the feature, the user has to tap the face icon in the bottom right corner before or during a live broadcast. Then, they can tap any filter to try a new look, and play around with different filters, the company wrote in a blog post late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>All existing face filters are now available for live video feature on the app.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csunglasses\u201d face filter is available exclusively in live video feature for the next week, it can be tapped to change the scenery reflected in the lenses.<\/p>\n<p>After the live broadcast ends, the user has the option to share a replay to stories, or choose \u201cdiscard\u201d option and the live video would disappear from the app.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook-owned company would roll out face filters in live video globally in the \u201cnext several weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Instagram is breaking all records in terms of user growth, Snapchat still has a bigger share of new users in the US but the advantage may not remain for long, a report said.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat represented 38.5 per cent of new signups globally compared with Instagram\u2019s 61.5 per cent in August.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and the photo-sharing platform has seen its usership grow to 700 million monthly active users (MAU) globally.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular photo-sharing platform Instagram has introduced face filters for live video broadcasts through the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}