Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Talk Two.0”

Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Talk Two.0, a massive set of fresh features launching today. It lets private conversations morph inbetween mediums depending on what users want to demonstrate or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent. As WhatsApp concentrates on plainness and Facebook Messenger pursues commerce, Snapchat is positioning itself as the most vivid, human way to talk.

Snapchat is basically upgrading everything today, and explaining it all with a special Detect channel movie you can witness by scanning this QR Snapcode. But here’s a quick list of the launches before we dive into what they mean:

• Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for effortless lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting.
• Over two hundred Stickers are now available in private talk, and ones related to text you’ve typed like “love you” or “hungry” are instantly surfaced when you press the Stickers button. (Snapchat’s $100 million acquisition of Bitstrips makes flawless sense now that it has stickers, however Bitmoji aren’t available here yet)
• Movie Notes in Talk let you record and send a quick 10-second max thumbnail-sized GIF-like loop so you can react with your face, and they play audio too if the recipient taps
• Audio Notes work similarly, permitting you to send brief voice snippets when you’re moving and can’t type, or have something to say
• Movie and Audio Calls can now be initiated even if the recipient isn’t already talking with you, turning Snapchat into more of a phone
• You can now send numerous photos at a time in talk, and mark them up with Snapchat’s text, drawing, and filter devices very first
• During Movie and Audio Calls, you can at the same time send camera roll photos to showcase someone something, and they show up translucent overlaid on the talk window
• Talk Two.0 lets both conversation fucking partners toggle on the fly inbetween Movie and Audio Calls, Movie and Audio notes, stickers, and text as their environment or intentions switch, so users can embark or stop transmitting and just listen or witness
• A fresh Privacy Centersite clarifies that Snapchat only temporarily saves snaps submitted to Live stories and deletes everything else, however nothing about privacy is switching

These updates roll out to all iOS and Android users today. For a movie demo of these features plus a rant about why Snapchat won’t be lightly strike, check out this movie:

All Human Communication In One Interface

Snapchat explains that “When we very first launched Talk, our objective was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Talk 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Talk let you know that your friend was listening.” Now it’s actually delivering on its aim to be the 2nd most vibrant way to interact beyond talking in person.

Snapchat has figured out how to pull every way humans communicate into a single interface — movie, audio, text, symbols and, drawing. Instead of having to choose how you want to connect before you commence, conversations can evolve on the fly.

In comparison, it makes other talk apps feel stiff and stodgy, like they’re attempting to restrain your communication into siloed buckets. This more natural and expressive style has always been Snapchat’s advantage, but now it’s making it badly evident how its competitors are more like outdated AOL Instant Messengers ported to mobile.

On the web, you were always in the same situation from commence to finish of a conversation. You weren’t walking around, being interrupted or attempting to message on the sly. Snapchat’s Talk Two.0 adapts to real life.

You could be texting but be on the stir and seamlessly switch to an Audio Call or Note. You could be movie calling but have to duck into the bathroom, and Snapchat lets you turn off movie and audio broadcasting while still watching what you playmate is doing. You could be Audio Calling but want to demonstrate photos from your latest vacation, and do both at the same time. If that inspires the other person to send a Movie Note reaction or commence a full-blown Movie Call, they can.

The plasticity will be addictive.

SnapPhone

While subtle, one of the most significant switches here is that you don’t have to already be text talking someone to do a call with them. Now, Snapchat serves as a phone. You can Movie Call or Audio Call someone at any time. Snapchat even intelligently tells the caller their playmate is “unavailable” if they miss they call, but that they “can’t talk right now” if they purposefully muffle it.

This all makes Snapchat less of a messaging app and more a total communication suite richer than anything else your device has to suggest. It’s certainly more complicated in the sense that there’s a lot more to do in Snapchat. But since all the features are woven into the existing talk interface and made to be optional, the update shouldn’t be too jarring, even for olds who are lightly confused.

Nothing here has anything to do with monetization directly. But the more people swipe right to talk, the more likely they’ll wonder what’s on the other side of Snapchat’s camera, including Live Stories and Detect channels that are packed with ads.

At this point, Snapchat is becoming social media sharing and communication bedrock. It does everything, full-screen, with as little interface chrome as possible. Facebook and Twitter are packed with white-space and boring text. Even Instagrams are only half the height of your phone, and the practice is as much anti-social manicuring of your photos as it is interacting with others.

Snapchat is the closest thing to a direct window from your friends’ lives into yours. That’s going to make it very hard for competitors to dig underneath and suggest any advancement significant enough to pull people away.

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in – Talk two

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Talk Two.0”

Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Talk Two.0, a massive set of fresh features launching today. It lets private conversations morph inbetween mediums depending on what users want to demonstrate or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent. As WhatsApp concentrates on plainness and Facebook Messenger pursues commerce, Snapchat is positioning itself as the most vivid, human way to talk.

Snapchat is basically upgrading everything today, and explaining it all with a special Detect channel movie you can witness by scanning this QR Snapcode. But here’s a quick list of the launches before we dive into what they mean:

• Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for effortless lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting.
• Over two hundred Stickers are now available in private talk, and ones related to text you’ve typed like “love you” or “hungry” are instantly surfaced when you press the Stickers button. (Snapchat’s $100 million acquisition of Bitstrips makes flawless sense now that it has stickers, however Bitmoji aren’t available here yet)
• Movie Notes in Talk let you record and send a quick 10-second max thumbnail-sized GIF-like loop so you can react with your face, and they play audio too if the recipient taps
• Audio Notes work similarly, permitting you to send brief voice snippets when you’re moving and can’t type, or have something to say
• Movie and Audio Calls can now be initiated even if the recipient isn’t already talking with you, turning Snapchat into more of a phone
• You can now send numerous photos at a time in talk, and mark them up with Snapchat’s text, drawing, and filter contraptions very first
• During Movie and Audio Calls, you can at the same time send camera roll photos to demonstrate someone something, and they show up translucent overlaid on the talk window
• Talk Two.0 lets both conversation playmates toggle on the fly inbetween Movie and Audio Calls, Movie and Audio notes, stickers, and text as their environment or intentions switch, so users can embark or stop transmitting and just listen or observe
• A fresh Privacy Centersite clarifies that Snapchat only temporarily saves snaps submitted to Live stories and deletes everything else, however nothing about privacy is switching

These updates roll out to all iOS and Android users today. For a movie demo of these features plus a rant about why Snapchat won’t be lightly strike, check out this movie:

All Human Communication In One Interface

Snapchat explains that “When we very first launched Talk, our purpose was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Talk 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Talk let you know that your friend was listening.” Now it’s actually delivering on its objective to be the 2nd most vibrant way to interact beyond talking in person.

Snapchat has figured out how to pull every way humans communicate into a single interface — movie, audio, text, symbols and, drawing. Instead of having to choose how you want to connect before you commence, conversations can evolve on the fly.

In comparison, it makes other talk apps feel stiff and stodgy, like they’re attempting to restrain your communication into siloed buckets. This more natural and expressive style has always been Snapchat’s advantage, but now it’s making it badly evident how its competitors are more like outdated AOL Instant Messengers ported to mobile.

On the web, you were always in the same situation from commence to finish of a conversation. You weren’t walking around, being interrupted or attempting to message on the sly. Snapchat’s Talk Two.0 adapts to real life.

You could be texting but be on the stir and seamlessly switch to an Audio Call or Note. You could be movie calling but have to duck into the bathroom, and Snapchat lets you turn off movie and audio broadcasting while still watching what you playmate is doing. You could be Audio Calling but want to showcase photos from your latest vacation, and do both at the same time. If that inspires the other person to send a Movie Note reaction or embark a full-blown Movie Call, they can.

The plasticity will be addictive.

SnapPhone

While subtle, one of the most significant switches here is that you don’t have to already be text talking someone to do a call with them. Now, Snapchat serves as a phone. You can Movie Call or Audio Call someone at any time. Snapchat even intelligently tells the caller their fucking partner is “unavailable” if they miss they call, but that they “can’t talk right now” if they purposefully muffle it.

This all makes Snapchat less of a messaging app and more a total communication suite richer than anything else your device has to suggest. It’s certainly more complicated in the sense that there’s a lot more to do in Snapchat. But since all the features are woven into the existing talk interface and made to be optional, the update shouldn’t be too jarring, even for olds who are lightly confused.

Nothing here has anything to do with monetization directly. But the more people swipe right to talk, the more likely they’ll wonder what’s on the other side of Snapchat’s camera, including Live Stories and Detect channels that are packed with ads.

At this point, Snapchat is becoming social media sharing and communication bedrock. It does everything, full-screen, with as little interface chrome as possible. Facebook and Twitter are packed with white-space and boring text. Even Instagrams are only half the height of your phone, and the practice is as much anti-social manicuring of your photos as it is interacting with others.

Snapchat is the closest thing to a direct window from your friends’ lives into yours. That’s going to make it very hard for competitors to dig underneath and suggest any advancement significant enough to pull people away.

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in – Talk two

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Talk Two.0”

Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Talk Two.0, a massive set of fresh features launching today. It lets private conversations morph inbetween mediums depending on what users want to demonstrate or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent. As WhatsApp concentrates on plainness and Facebook Messenger pursues commerce, Snapchat is positioning itself as the most vivid, human way to talk.

Snapchat is basically upgrading everything today, and explaining it all with a special Detect channel movie you can see by scanning this QR Snapcode. But here’s a quick list of the launches before we dive into what they mean:

• Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for effortless lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting.
• Over two hundred Stickers are now available in private talk, and ones related to text you’ve typed like “love you” or “hungry” are instantly surfaced when you press the Stickers button. (Snapchat’s $100 million acquisition of Bitstrips makes flawless sense now that it has stickers, tho’ Bitmoji aren’t available here yet)
• Movie Notes in Talk let you record and send a quick 10-second max thumbnail-sized GIF-like loop so you can react with your face, and they play audio too if the recipient taps
• Audio Notes work similarly, permitting you to send brief voice snippets when you’re moving and can’t type, or have something to say
• Movie and Audio Calls can now be initiated even if the recipient isn’t already talking with you, turning Snapchat into more of a phone
• You can now send numerous photos at a time in talk, and mark them up with Snapchat’s text, drawing, and filter instruments very first
• During Movie and Audio Calls, you can at the same time send camera roll photos to showcase someone something, and they show up translucent overlaid on the talk window
• Talk Two.0 lets both conversation fucking partners toggle on the fly inbetween Movie and Audio Calls, Movie and Audio notes, stickers, and text as their environment or intentions switch, so users can embark or stop transmitting and just listen or observe
• A fresh Privacy Centersite clarifies that Snapchat only temporarily saves snaps submitted to Live stories and deletes everything else, however nothing about privacy is switching

These updates roll out to all iOS and Android users today. For a movie demo of these features plus a rant about why Snapchat won’t be lightly hit, check out this movie:

All Human Communication In One Interface

Snapchat explains that “When we very first launched Talk, our objective was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Talk 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Talk let you know that your friend was listening.” Now it’s actually delivering on its purpose to be the 2nd most vibrant way to interact beyond talking in person.

Snapchat has figured out how to pull every way humans communicate into a single interface — movie, audio, text, symbols and, drawing. Instead of having to choose how you want to connect before you commence, conversations can evolve on the fly.

In comparison, it makes other talk apps feel stiff and stodgy, like they’re attempting to limit your communication into siloed buckets. This more natural and expressive style has always been Snapchat’s advantage, but now it’s making it badly evident how its competitors are more like outdated AOL Instant Messengers ported to mobile.

On the web, you were always in the same situation from embark to finish of a conversation. You weren’t walking around, being interrupted or attempting to message on the sly. Snapchat’s Talk Two.0 adapts to real life.

You could be texting but be on the stir and seamlessly switch to an Audio Call or Note. You could be movie calling but have to duck into the bathroom, and Snapchat lets you turn off movie and audio broadcasting while still watching what you fucking partner is doing. You could be Audio Calling but want to demonstrate photos from your latest vacation, and do both at the same time. If that inspires the other person to send a Movie Note reaction or begin a full-blown Movie Call, they can.

The plasticity will be addictive.

SnapPhone

While subtle, one of the most significant switches here is that you don’t have to already be text talking someone to do a call with them. Now, Snapchat serves as a phone. You can Movie Call or Audio Call someone at any time. Snapchat even intelligently tells the caller their fucking partner is “unavailable” if they miss they call, but that they “can’t talk right now” if they purposefully muffle it.

This all makes Snapchat less of a messaging app and more a total communication suite richer than anything else your device has to suggest. It’s certainly more complicated in the sense that there’s a lot more to do in Snapchat. But since all the features are woven into the existing talk interface and made to be optional, the update shouldn’t be too jarring, even for olds who are lightly confused.

Nothing here has anything to do with monetization directly. But the more people swipe right to talk, the more likely they’ll wonder what’s on the other side of Snapchat’s camera, including Live Stories and Detect channels that are packed with ads.

At this point, Snapchat is becoming social media sharing and communication bedrock. It does everything, full-screen, with as little interface chrome as possible. Facebook and Twitter are packed with white-space and boring text. Even Instagrams are only half the height of your phone, and the practice is as much anti-social manicuring of your photos as it is interacting with others.

Snapchat is the closest thing to a direct window from your friends’ lives into yours. That’s going to make it very hard for competitors to dig underneath and suggest any advancement significant enough to pull people away.

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in – Talk two

Snapchat seamlessly combines movie, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Talk Two.0”

Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Talk Two.0, a massive set of fresh features launching today. It lets private conversations morph inbetween mediums depending on what users want to display or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent. As WhatsApp concentrates on simpleness and Facebook Messenger pursues commerce, Snapchat is positioning itself as the most vivid, human way to talk.

Snapchat is basically upgrading everything today, and explaining it all with a special Detect channel movie you can observe by scanning this QR Snapcode. But here’s a quick list of the launches before we dive into what they mean:

• Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for effortless lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting.
• Over two hundred Stickers are now available in private talk, and ones related to text you’ve typed like “love you” or “hungry” are instantly surfaced when you press the Stickers button. (Snapchat’s $100 million acquisition of Bitstrips makes ideal sense now that it has stickers, however Bitmoji aren’t available here yet)
• Movie Notes in Talk let you record and send a quick 10-second max thumbnail-sized GIF-like loop so you can react with your face, and they play audio too if the recipient taps
• Audio Notes work similarly, permitting you to send brief voice snippets when you’re moving and can’t type, or have something to say
• Movie and Audio Calls can now be initiated even if the recipient isn’t already talking with you, turning Snapchat into more of a phone
• You can now send numerous photos at a time in talk, and mark them up with Snapchat’s text, drawing, and filter contraptions very first
• During Movie and Audio Calls, you can at the same time send camera roll photos to display someone something, and they show up translucent overlaid on the talk window
• Talk Two.0 lets both conversation playmates toggle on the fly inbetween Movie and Audio Calls, Movie and Audio notes, stickers, and text as their environment or intentions switch, so users can begin or stop transmitting and just listen or observe
• A fresh Privacy Centersite clarifies that Snapchat only temporarily saves snaps submitted to Live stories and deletes everything else, tho’ nothing about privacy is switching

These updates roll out to all iOS and Android users today. For a movie demo of these features plus a rant about why Snapchat won’t be lightly hammer, check out this movie:

All Human Communication In One Interface

Snapchat explains that “When we very first launched Talk, our objective was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Talk 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Talk let you know that your friend was listening.” Now it’s actually delivering on its purpose to be the 2nd most vibrant way to interact beyond talking in person.

Snapchat has figured out how to pull every way humans communicate into a single interface — movie, audio, text, symbols and, drawing. Instead of having to choose how you want to connect before you begin, conversations can evolve on the fly.

In comparison, it makes other talk apps feel stiff and stodgy, like they’re attempting to limit your communication into siloed buckets. This more natural and expressive style has always been Snapchat’s advantage, but now it’s making it badly evident how its competitors are more like outdated AOL Instant Messengers ported to mobile.

On the web, you were always in the same situation from embark to finish of a conversation. You weren’t walking around, being interrupted or attempting to message on the sly. Snapchat’s Talk Two.0 adapts to real life.

You could be texting but be on the budge and seamlessly switch to an Audio Call or Note. You could be movie calling but have to duck into the bathroom, and Snapchat lets you turn off movie and audio broadcasting while still watching what you playmate is doing. You could be Audio Calling but want to display photos from your latest vacation, and do both at the same time. If that inspires the other person to send a Movie Note reaction or embark a full-blown Movie Call, they can.

The plasticity will be addictive.

SnapPhone

While subtle, one of the most significant switches here is that you don’t have to already be text talking someone to do a call with them. Now, Snapchat serves as a phone. You can Movie Call or Audio Call someone at any time. Snapchat even intelligently tells the caller their playmate is “unavailable” if they miss they call, but that they “can’t talk right now” if they purposefully muffle it.

This all makes Snapchat less of a messaging app and more a total communication suite richer than anything else your device has to suggest. It’s certainly more complicated in the sense that there’s a lot more to do in Snapchat. But since all the features are woven into the existing talk interface and made to be optional, the update shouldn’t be too jarring, even for olds who are lightly confused.

Nothing here has anything to do with monetization directly. But the more people swipe right to talk, the more likely they’ll wonder what’s on the other side of Snapchat’s camera, including Live Stories and Detect channels that are packed with ads.

At this point, Snapchat is becoming social media sharing and communication bedrock. It does everything, full-screen, with as little interface chrome as possible. Facebook and Twitter are packed with white-space and boring text. Even Instagrams are only half the height of your phone, and the practice is as much anti-social manicuring of your photos as it is interacting with others.

Snapchat is the closest thing to a direct window from your friends’ lives into yours. That’s going to make it very hard for competitors to dig underneath and suggest any advancement significant enough to pull people away.

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