<p>Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.</p><p>We've reached an era in which each social network is competing to be a mobile messaging app and none is distinguishing itself particularly from the rest. An abundance of popular messaging apps all feature essentially the same idea send photos or videos to your friends.</p><p>Kevin Smith/Business Insider</p><p>Non-messaging platforms have now added or enhanced a native messaging service. Yesterday, photo-sharing app Instagram introduced Instagram Direct, a way to message Instagram photos to a select number of friends or followers. Twitter this week enhanced their direct message (DM) feature so that users could now message photos to each other, as well.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mobile-messaging-app-parity-has-created-a-balkanized-messaging-ecosystem-2013-12">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/12/12/kik-reaches-100-million-users-shows-instagram-twitter-messaging-done/">Kik Shows Instagram, Twitter and Others How Messaging is Done</a> (The Next Web)</p><p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/12/messaging-app-kik-passes-100-million-users-pushes-for-more-games/">Messaging App Kik Passes 100 Million Users, Pushes for More Games</a> (Wall Street Journal (blog))</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/12/12/kik-emerges-from-the-ott-messaging-wars-with-100m-users/">Kik emerges from the OTT messaging wars with 100M users</a> (GigaOM)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dyyk4moEmEotgnMT9JR6qUU8eFKTM&ned=us">30 additional articles.</a></p>