Saturday, 22 February 2020

Twitter buys Stories Template Maker Chroma Labs

Twitter has acquired California-based Chroma Labs that develops tools for short-form Video and photo creation and was founded by seven Facebook and Instagram workers in 2018.
The Chroma Stories app lets users fill in stylish layout templates and frames for posting collages and more to Instagram Stories, Snapchat and more. According to Sensor Tower, nearly 615,000 people have installed the Chroma Stories app. During the past year, Chroma Labs has enabled creators and businesses around the world to create millions of stories with the Chroma Stories app.

Chroma Labs' co-founders include Instagram 'Boomerang' inventor John Barnett, CTO Alex Li, who was an engineering manager on Facebook Photos and Instagram Stories, and Joshua Harris who was a product design manager on Facebook's augmented reality team. With Chroma Stories, users can choose between retro filters, holiday-themed frames and collage templates.

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