Status
24-hour stories with photos, videos, or captions that disappear automatically.
A Status is a short update that appears in your followers' Status bar for 24 hours and then disappears.
What you can post
- A photo or video, optionally with a caption.
- A caption-only status (text up to 500 characters).
Where to find it
- Web: the Status bar sits above your feed at the top of
/news/followingand/news/public. - Android: the same horizontal status row sits at the top of the Home tab.
Your own status appears first, with an Add status affordance (a + on your avatar). Other people's statuses appear next to yours. If you own pages, statuses posted as a page show as their own ring with the page name and avatar.
Post as a page
Page owners can post a status as a page, the same way they post as a page in the composer:
- Open New status from the Status bar (or the + on a page profile you own).
- Choose Post as and pick the page — or keep Yourself for a personal status.
- Add a photo, video, or caption and submit.
Followers of that page (and the page owner) see the story as a separate ring. Personal statuses and page statuses are not mixed into the same ring.
Profile avatar rings
User profiles and page profiles show an Instagram-style ring around the avatar when that profile has a live status:
- Unviewed rings use the green/gradient outline from the Status bar.
- Viewed rings use a muted outline.
- Tap the avatar to open the same full-screen viewer (auto-advance, mark viewed, owner delete, view count).
- Changing the profile photo stays on the camera badge so it does not steal the tap when a status is live.
- If you own the profile and there is no live status, a small + still opens the create dialog (on a page profile it preselects that page).
Community and character profiles do not show status rings.
Create a status
- Tap your avatar in the Status bar (the one with the +).
- Choose to upload an image or video from your device, or write a caption-only status.
- Add a caption (optional).
- Submit.
Your status is now live for 24 hours.
View someone's status
- Tap a contact's avatar in the Status bar.
- The viewer auto-advances roughly every 5 seconds per status.
- You can swipe or tap to move between statuses.
- Public marks the status as viewed the first time you watch it.
Who saw your status
Open one of your own statuses to see the viewer list and a count of who watched it.
Delete your status
While viewing your own status, use the menu to delete it. Statuses you don't delete are removed automatically after 24 hours.