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Hooked is a freemium smartphone app that allows users to write or read short stories made up of text messages between characters. [1] [2] CEO Prerna Gupta described the app as "books for the Snapchat generation" or "Twitter for fiction." [3] As of March 2019, the app had more than 40 million active users. [4]
Snapchat sends messages referred to as "snaps"; snaps can consist of a photo or a short video, and can be edited to include filters and effects, text captions, and drawings. [126] [127] Snaps can be directed privately to selected contacts, or to a semi-public "Story" or a public "Story" called "Our Story."
Snapchat was released as an Android app on October 29, 2012. [21] In June 2013, Snapchat version 5.0, dubbed "Banquo", was released for iOS. The updated version introduced several speed and design enhancements, including swipe navigation, double-tap to reply, an improved friend finder, and in-app profiles. [23]
Snapchat is working to make it harder for teenagers to be contacted on the app by people they don’t know, its latest effort to stop the sexual and financial exploitation scam known as sextortion.
Snapchat has announced a new in-app safety tool called Family Center, designed to let parents see who their kids are talking to while keeping the content of the conversations private. It's ...
Instant messaging systems facilitate connections between specified known users [1] (often using a contact list also known as a "buddy list" or "friend list") or in chat rooms, and can be standalone apps or integrated into a wider social media platform, or in a website where it can, for instance, be used for conversational commerce.
Snapchat claims to reach over 75% of people 13-34 in more than 20 countries. According to the company, more than 250 million Snapchat users engage with AR Lenses per day on average.
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