App That Lets People Make Personalized Emojis Is the Fastest Growing App In Past Two Years (axios.com) 36
From a report on Axios: Bitmoji is the fastest-growing app in America, per comScore, with a more than 5000 percent increase in monthly unique visitors over the past two years. E-commerce apps OfferUp and Letgo are the 2nd and 3rd fastest-growing apps. The findings from comScore's latest study highlight three of the fastest-growing mobile market trends:
E-commerce: Letgo (3), OfferUp (2), Flipp (4), Venmo (5) and Wish (7), are facilitating real-world marketplace transactions.
Travel: Uber (6), Waze (8) and Lyft (9) all help users travel from one point to another via auto.
Social connectivity: Tinder (10), Bitmoji (1) and GroupMe (11) all facilitate gatherings and social interaction. FastCompany wrote a profile of Bitmoji and why so many people seem to be a big fan of it.
E-commerce: Letgo (3), OfferUp (2), Flipp (4), Venmo (5) and Wish (7), are facilitating real-world marketplace transactions.
Travel: Uber (6), Waze (8) and Lyft (9) all help users travel from one point to another via auto.
Social connectivity: Tinder (10), Bitmoji (1) and GroupMe (11) all facilitate gatherings and social interaction. FastCompany wrote a profile of Bitmoji and why so many people seem to be a big fan of it.
No it isn't (Score:5, Funny)
My app, FuckSlahdotAds is the fastest growing app. It has grown from 0 users to 1 in the last 3 seconds, an infinite% increase.
This is by far the lowest value, least use slashvertisement I've ever seen.
You get what you pay for (Score:1)
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You are doing it wrong - here's how you do it:
Emojis as generally used in forums, social media and phone-based messages are idiotic crap. Not only are there 10Gi versions of emojis (to make sure one can select a specific type that nobody knows what it actually means) but they look different on different platforms to ensure that not even those that would like to learn every single (useless) emoji have any chance to master the crap.
ASCII emojis are sometimes useful to add _some_ extra information and (if not
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What's really fascinating in a disheartening way is that an emoji app is at the top of the list. It says a lot about "smart" phone/device users, at least on a collective basis.
I'm glad I'm not so shallow, and use my smartphone for serious and productive purposes, like playing card games.
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It's where they make the poo emoji look like them.
Re: And I don't have a single one of these install (Score:2)
The poo emoji is the most useful emoji in the emoji universe. Say it with me "We love the poo emoji! We love the poo emoji!" It's almost as wonderful as the Frosty Piss emoji!
Mandatory XKCD (Score:4, Informative)
https://xkcd.com/1813/ [xkcd.com]
Re:Mandatory XKCD (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually you have to say 'Obligatory' instead of "Mandatory". Obligatory is mandatory here.
Re: Mandatory XKCD (Score:2)
Don't let him in on the secrets, he's just some "/\/00b3"...
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This one is more relevant: https://xkcd.com/1709/ [xkcd.com]
I've never heard of most of these (Score:4, Insightful)
Okay, yeah I know what Uber, Lyft, Waze, and Tinder are. But I suspect they're included in the list specifically to give credence to the idea these other unknown apps are "hot".
1 user to 50 users = 5000% increase!
But I'm sure there are no financial ties between these unknown apps and the people producing this "survey"...
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Flipp is good for shopping because you can go through the advertisements that are sent out from the grocery stores to compare prices and if a store does price matching they use the ads stored on the app as proof. I've saved quite a bit of money with the app over the past year or so. Though every time they come out with an update it's becoming less user friendly. For example, the favourite shops used to be sorted by store name but now I think it's by when the sale ends. I always go into that tab to look
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Guess I shouldn't post before I've had that first cup of coffee...
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Hi-rez (Score:2)
My personalized emoji is basically The Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch, except with the face of a kitty superimposed over St Anthony.
Voyger (Score:2)
Where's the technology angle? (Score:1)
Unicode (Score:2)
Wow! Somebody better call the unicode people. They have a LOT of work ahead of them!