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Snapchat To Start Featuring Creator-Made Lenses More Prominently

One of the problems of a monopoly is that it discourages innovation, and for the longest time ever Snapchat kind of had the monopoly on the social scene where its Stories feature was one of its unique selling points. That is until Instagram came along and actually offered a version …

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Here’s Why You Can’t Add Gifs In Instagram Stories

The feature was removed from both Instagram and Snapchat after users discovered a Gif with a racial slur. … Then, within Instagram Stories swipe up to access your saved photos or, in Snapchat, tap the Memories icon at the bottom of the main camera screen, and select your saved Gif. …

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Facebook Messenger redesign could bring Snapchat-like disappearing pictures to app

Facebook is about to add a multitude of new features to Messenger, it has been reported. The social network is also believed to be working on a clean new look for the app, which should make it slightly easier to navigate. In future versions of Messenger, the home screen will …

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Instagram, Snapchat suspend GIFs after racist GIF found in library

Instagram and Snapchat users will be temporarily unable to embed GIFs into their stories after a racist GIF was discovered in the library last weekend, according to TechCrunch. Both apps suspended the feature after users uncovered the racist GIF in the library Snapchat makes available to users, curated … Read More

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Snapchat Redesign Gets Slammed With 83% Bad Reviews

What was supposed to be their big push to conquer Instagram and revamp its growth, turned out to be a headache for Snapchat, as a big redesign of the social network app received terrible reviews. Putting Stories in between private messages and erasing the auto-advancing of Stories are some of …

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Could NY Giants Star Odell Beckham Jr.’s Viral Snapchat Video Cost Him Millions?

Last week a video was uploaded to Snapchat that appeared to show New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. laying in a bed with pepperoni pizza. It has since gone viral—and definitely not because of the pizza. In the clip, Beckham appears to be holding a brown cigarette, believed …

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Snapchat brings creator-made lenses front and center in app

Starting in late March, Snapchat will feature creator-made lenses in the app's carousel. The update will display artists' work in the app's main screen, only a couple of swipes away from the puppy filter and the dancing hot dog. That means potential exposure to Snapchat's 187 million daily active users … …

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User-Created AR Lenses Headed to Snapchat Carousel

Heads up, artists and augmented reality enthusiasts: Snapchat is about to give you a serious incentive to play around with its Lens Studio tool. Launched in December, the tool lets anyone create AR lenses for the app. As Mashable first reported and confirmed by PCMag, Snapchat is now planning to … …

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How to Make a Clean Break With the Clingiest Social Networks

From there, go to Settings in the top-right corner. Go down to Support, which is found under More Information, and you'll be lead to a search engine. Enter “Delete my account” and you'll see the instructions as a search result. It's pretty straightforward from there. Like Twitter, Snapchat allows you …

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Snapchat to start featuring user-created AR lenses as it looks to boost creativity

Snapchat is looking to expand the AR lenses it offers via its app by introducing new content from other creators. As reported by Mashable, Snapchat is going to start featuring creator-made lenses directly in the first-party Lens carousel… Read More