Someone at Instagram has a slippery trigger finger: Some Instagram for Android users are reporting links posted to a “one tap photo messaging app” called Bolt. It sounds an awful lot like a very popular photo-sharing app not owned by Facebook that rhymes with “App Hat.”
The link brings you to a dead page at the Google Play store, and no one has reported actually testing out the app.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/492153812912574464
We’ve reached out to Facebook and Instagram for comment and will update if they fess up.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/492153812912574464
If this incident seems familiar, it’s because this is very similar to what happened when Facebook launched its Snapchat competitor, Slingshot — someone posted the app page on the iTunes store before it was actually available. If this is, in fact, exactly like Slingshot, maybe Bolt will appear in the next few days. Now we just have to wait and see if it’s actually a worthy competitor, or if it ends up being another needlessly complicated knockoff, like Slingshot. [The Verge]
