Facebook Devolping Video Application to Rival Snapchat

Facebook is working on a video chat application to compete with Snapchat ephemeral popular messaging application , according to reports.

It has come to know that the app has been in development for the last couple of months and could be released as early as this month.

Facebook tried to acquire Snapchat for $ 3 billion in November last year, but was rejected by the start , at the time that 5 million new users register each day.

A Suite of Independent Mobile Applications

Slingshot sat with other mobile applications in different positions of Facebook that are not directly connected to the primary experience of Facebook, including text messaging application of social network , Facebook Messenger and photo sharing service #Instagram.

Facebook Declined to Comment .

Heads of Facebook can still decide to leave the new application, which is still in development, but this is not the first attempt by the company to challenge Snapchat . Push Facebook application launched in 2012 but was suspended this month , along with Facebook Chamber of enterprise applications .

Disappear forever ' or not

Snapchat updated their app to include text messages and video calls along with your messages short video and photos ; all are only visible for 10 seconds before disappearing from the application of the recipient.

U.S. regulator The Federal Trade Commission recently reprimanded #Snapchat posts on false "disappear forever" but could actually be kept by recipients through third-party applications or take an image capture screen undetectable.

#Facebook just bought #WhatsApp messaging application for $ 19 billion in February as part of its mission to reach out and connect more users, who have also come to Snapchat and ditching risk or at least reducing their interactions with traditional Facebook experience .

WhatsApp announced in February, after its acquisition by Facebook , which launched voice calls , which allows users to make calls and send text messages through the data, instead of traditional voice and SMS telephone networks. The voice calling feature still has not arrived .