Instagram allows users to add a friend into split-screen live video
Social media site Instagram is aiming to capitalise on the growing popularity of video by unveiling a tool allowing users to stream live video with a friend using a split-screen option. Users broadcasting video can invite another person to join them by clicking the dual-livestream icon, while others are notified of the dualstream by an icon featuring two stacked circles in the Stories bar. Completed videos can also be posted to Stories.
Now you can broadcast live alongside a friend on Instagram, wherever they are

Instagram has introduced a new video feature as it looks to capitalise on the ever-increasing production and consumption of video content on its app. Now, users are able go livestream at the same time as a friend in split-screen.

To go live alongside a friend, Instagrammers start broadcasting alone, before inviting a friend to stream with them through the new dual-livestream icon at the bottom of screen. Once the invitation is accepted, the screen splits in two both users stream the shared live video to their respective followers.

The guest can be removed from the shared stream at any time and replaced with another person, or they are free to exit on their own accord. As normal, live videos can be added to stories once the broadcast has ended, or discarded.

When someone is streaming live with a friend, two circles are stacked together in the Stories bar. This can be tapped to watch, and can be liked and commented on just like any other live video.

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