Storify, which launched publicly in April, maintains the functions of each social media post included in its timelines, a function it noticed was missing from traditional online slideshows.
"We see a lot of sites use slideshows in general to show tweets and other elements," says Storify co-founder Xavier Damman. "But when they do it that way, they use screenshots, and that’s losing the fact that this is a tweet, you can retweet it, you can reply."
Any of the about 100,000 stories that have been created using Storify can now be viewed as a slideshow by adding "/slideshow" to the end of the URL or choosing "slideshow" from a drop-down menu within the embed option.
But Damman notes there are many more options for Storify templates than the two now included in the drop-down menu.
"We are using our own API to do the slideshow," he says. "Anyone can develop a template for displaying the story, something that is really new."
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