Chroma Stories shuts down its operation; all employees transferred to Twitter. The template-maker application was Co-founded by John Barnett, who had introduced Boomerang on Instagram. Twitter has acquired California-based Chroma Stories, a photo editing and stories template-marker. All employees from Chroma Stories will be transferred to Twitter immediately, adding to its current talent. Chroma Stories allowed its users to jazz up their content with stylish layouts and frames for their photographs, create multiple slides for a Snap or Instagram Story and add video effects like Instagram's Boomerang -- personalised for any platform of their choice. It was co-founded by Instagram Boomerang inventor John Barnett, Joshua Harris who was a Product Design Manager at Facebook's augmented reality