Snapademia

Scholars exploring @snapchat! What could be more fun?

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

Coining the Stories concept doesn't bring in any cash, so now Snapchat is powering ephemeral content in other apps to rally allies against the Facebook empire https://t.co/p66CIYbeor

[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

So check out the special issue on “Apps and Infrastructures” (open access🔓), a special section on ”Computational Law”, and other articles in the seventh edition of the revamped Computational Culture journal!✨ https://t.co/1iKPKv3JEz

[Snapademia @Snapademia]

Facebook/Instagram's new Threads app is unlikely to win them friends with Snap any time soon ...

Snap shares plunge after Facebook's latest clone attempt https://t.co/0r4UuEIbIq

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

Takeaways from my #TCDisrupt talk with Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel:
1. On Instagram Threads’ icon vs Snap Spectacles. “Haha. Nice logo” https://t.co/nUDrvfMwo9

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

“It’s hard to say” if breaking up Facebook would benefit society, but he thinks competition makes it build better products. (For example, Snap’s messaging spawned Instagram Threads) 6/

[Snapademia @Snapademia]

https://t.co/HWzDUy6FOl

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Snapchat is testing new UI for adding caption

Snapchat is refining the unreleased Mention sticker

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Snapchat is testing post-capture face filters

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Snapchat has been working on the new UI for Android since last year, as I first discovered in last August

Good to see it’s finally being launched to the general public :)

https://t.co/a07x3wXkx1

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Snapchat appears to launch the new #SnapchatforAndroid soon

They started a hashflag campaign about the upcoming launch: https://t.co/TdkP0gKTV8

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

Here are my thoughts on today’s big Snapchat announcements:
-Games https://t.co/DkLGXbJWwV
-Ads & Stories in other apps https://t.co/dV2Gg10LJZ
-“Scan” AR utility platform https://t.co/1dxVhp3ChK

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

No app is safe from the Stories plague https://t.co/sFHnxohKnm

[Social Media Perth @SMPerth]

Your Snapchat friendships now have their own profiles — and merchandise https://t.co/AXhoyt62Ai

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

Reuters reports sore losers from Snapchat’s IPO are suing, saying it didn’t stress impact of Instagram’s competition. https://t.co/w1DQdk5glU But Snap did explicitly call out that risk I’d been harping on since Insta Stories launched https://t.co/WQuCfWB2Sy

[Mashable Australia @mashableAU]

Snapchat now sells personalised Bitmoji swag https://t.co/4CvlvmaKYv

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

Taking a hint from lifelike avatar startup Genies, Snapchat's new Bitmoji Stories feature you & friends' avatars in funny, shareable scenes like roadtrips or ignoring each other to stare at their phones. After losing 2M users last quarter, Snap could use the engagement

[Michael Monheim @MichaelMonheim]

#SnapchatOriginals ushers in a whole new type of TV show content that may signify the #FutureOfTV. https://t.co/M4DexqM2aG