The ability to chat with friends from your computer without picking up your smartphone. After Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram, it’s Snapchat’s turn to launch a web version of its messaging service. The feature will initially be reserved for Snapchat+ subscribers in Anglo-Saxon countries before rolling out to French, German, Saudi, and Emirati subscribers. Non-subscribers will have to wait a few months to be able to use this new service.
Users of the web versions of the main messengers on the market will not be confused by what Snapchat for Web has to offer. The site aggregates all ongoing conversations and allows you to exchange text or video with friends, in pairs or groups. “Snapchatters” would already spend more than 30 minutes a day on these video calls… Soon they will be able to add augmented reality filters to their calls, as well as send Snaps from their computers, these photos that self-destruct after being viewed. .
Snapchat for Web does not include other basic features of the mobile app. Opt out of Stories, Discover content viewing, mini-games, or Map, which lets you view videos by their geographic location. These are only private conversations. For greater discretion, the site blurs all exchanges from the moment the user performs another task on their computer. The user is also warned if one of his interlocutors takes a screenshot of their conversation.
Anecdotal service subscription
This service aims to enrich the Snapchat+ subscription. Launched at the end of June in nine countries, including France, for €4.49 per month, it provides preview access to new features. The ones available so far have been anecdotal. changing the Snapchat icon on your smartphone, knowing how to view your stories multiple times, designating one of your contacts as a “best friend”… The ability to chat from a computer already seems much more interesting. , and could appeal to some of the social network’s 26 million French users.
Snapchat, whose revenue has always depended on advertising, is looking for a new source of monetization with this subscription. The social network will present its financial results for the first half of 2021 on Thursday evening. It has already warned that its full-year forecast has been revised downwards due to the macroeconomic context and that it is set to moderate collections.
Source: Le Figaro
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