Instagram launches Bolt as an answer to Snapchat

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app, owned by Facebook, unveiled last Tuesday a new messaging application called Bolt, which allows users to send picture and video messages that self-destruct.Bolt allows the user to send short messages that are destroyed when the person touches the picture on the screen of the smartphone. This is the answer of Instagram to Snapchat.Every day, 500 million snaps are sent, while only 60 million Instagram posts are made. For now, Bolt can only be downloaded in New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.”We are going to other regions soon, but we are starting with that handful of countries to ensure that we can scale the experience,” a spokesman for Instagram said.