Snapchat Confirms It's Testing New Snap Map UI, as Well as Status, Passport Features

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By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 3 April 2019 18:00 IST
Snapchat Confirms It's Testing New Snap Map UI, as Well as Status, Passport Features

Photo Credit: Twitter/ Jane Manchun Wong

Photo-messaging app Snapchat is testing new features including a traditional social networking feature offering 'Status' option -- its own version of Instagram-like "@Mention" stickers -- along with a new user interface (UI) for Snap Map. The move makes it similar to the once popular Foursquare app.

To keep track of all the places users check-in at and with whom, the platform is also trying its hands on a feature called "virtual passport" as a private history of Status which users could view or delete singularly, Social Media Today reported on Wednesday.

The test features were first discovered by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong. Snapchat confirmed the test in a statement to TechCrunch, saying, "Yes, we are currently testing new ways for Snapchatters to better communicate on the Snap Map with their friends. This test is running with a percentage of Snapchatters in Australia."

With these features, Snap seems to be targeting the "gamification" purpose of the platform that Snapchat has been known for, wherein users build records of exchanging snaps with each other every single day and call them "Snap Streaks".

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Snapchat's controversial and criticised redesign had wiped out Snap Streaks, which some users had spent years working on and that did not go well with the teenagers.

It makes sense for Snapchat to utilise that compulsion to drive increased activity in the app and by prompting expanded check-ins, Snap will be able to obtain additional audience data to help improve its ad targeting, the report said.

 

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