Say what you will about Facebook’s misguided implementation of Stories across its many apps and services. But in the one place it arguably matters the most, Instagram, the feature cloned direct from Snapchat continues to see massive success. Instagram Stories now has more than 200 million users per day, measured by someone either posting an update to their story or viewing a friend’s from the carousel at the top of the app.

That makes that singular feature of Instagram more popular than all of Snapchat, the app that popularized stories as a concept and Facebook’s mortal enemy in the war for teen mindshare. As of the fourth quarter of 2016, Snapchat had around 158 million daily active…

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