Snapchat Chat - Putting the Chat into Snapchat

And this might actually get me to use Snapchat.

@guygal would def use this w/my wife.

re android: sign up for the snapchat google play beta, its more stable

I couldn't experiment much with the app as most people haven't upgraded yet but I love the new features so far. My only issue is with the sliding gesture when you want to chat with a contact. You have to slide all the way straight to the right and it's kind of hard to do with your thumb on a large phone. I tend to do an arch which ends up refreshing the page instead. I wish you only had to slide on about 33% or 50% of the screen to unlock a contact.

@liveink I'm on the beta. Many crash, such sad :(

@ThatMattGardner =(. its working perfectly on the moto x

...Excuse to ditch the Nexus 4 maybe!

I just Snapchat chatted with @liveink this morning for the first time. Very impressed with its speed and seamless integration of real-time and asynchronous text+video chat. Here are a few bits that delight me: Your friend is typing... When a friend starts responding to your chats, it sends you a push notification that they're typing. Other apps use read receipts which (as I've talked about before) encourages a higher response and frequency of communication (see cycle time). However, it can have the opposite effect, discouraging someone from reading a message because they know the person (that they don't want to speak with) will see they read it. Single gesture front/back camera switch When in a chat, simply hold down on the circle button to open the camera. If your finger is resting on the top half of the screen, it uses the back facing camera. If on the bottom, it uses the front facing (selfie-optimized!) camera. After releasing your thumb, a photo is captured. Again: speed. CAMERA ROLL! (now supported) Until now, every photo or video shared on Snapchat had to be taken from your camera and shared at that moment. While this is still the case for standard one-to-one-to-many snaps, you can now share photos in your camera roll (past photos, screenshots, Instagram photos, etc.) in chat. You can also doodle on it. This expands the possible topics of conversation without compromising the "real-timeness" of the traditional Snapchat experience. But more importantly, it avoids giving users an excuse to move the conversation to iMessage or a different messaging app to share party pics from last night. Snapchat me! I'm rrhoover. cc @joshelman @joshm

@rrhoover and others, would love to hear your thoughts on what seems to be a weird split. People who read about Snapchat but don't use it seem to love the update, while existing users seem to hate it. Is this a case of Facebook newsfeed hate (which people actually came to love) or a stumble on Snapchat's part?

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