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TECH T@LK

Elon Musk unveils ‘first part’ of Snapchat to abandon its filter-laden

upcoming large ‘UI overhaul’ on Twitter desktop camera app

witter CEO Elon Musk recently wrote, “Those are good upgrades”. napchat has announced the de- announced that it was now focusing
made a major revelation about The upgrades came after Musk parture of a major feature from more on making the Camera Kit ac-
Tthe microblogging site’s user tweeted the announcement of a Sits layout recently. cess more expansive for a better expe-
interface. Taking to the platform, the change in the User Interface of the The instant messaging app decid- rience on web.
multi-billionaire announced the fea- platform’s ‘Bookmarks’ feature in De- ed to shut down on its camera app for “Hi there, thanks for asking! We’re
tures which will appear in the ‘first cember 2022. Musk had hinted that the desktop which allowed users to adjusting our web-based investments for
part’ of a ‘much larger UI overhaul’. the upcoming changes would make it choose from a variety of filters from the AR creator & developer community
“Easy swipe right/left to move “Easy to create folders to bookmark cat ears to pirate hats to apply during to focus on expanding access to Cam-
between recommended vs followed tweets into various categories”. video calls. On the support page of the era Kit for Web. Stay tuned for more
tweets rolls out later this week,” he The Tesla CEO replied to a user app’s website, a message was posted info this year, and you can keep using
wrote. “Bookmark button (de facto asking for a ‘bookmark organizer’ pos- which notified users that ‘on January Lenses on your computer with Snap-
silent like) on Tweet details rolls out a itively, hinting at it being part of the 25, 2023, Snap Camera will no longer chat for Web,” the app’s tweet read.
week later,” he added. new feature. Before that, the SpaceX be available to use or download’. Earlier in June 2022, Snapchat
The Tesla CEO further revealed owner earlier announced “Significant “You can continue using Lenses had formally unveiled Snapchat+, a
that ‘Long form tweets’ will be a part backend server architecture changes” on your computer with Snapchat for premium membership at USD3.99/
of Twitter from ‘early Feb’. Netizens on the platform. Web,” the message further read. month service that will give users ac-
lauded Musk for the changes he in- The update followed an outage of The camera feature was intro- cess to unique features including the
troduced, showing excitement for the the microblogging platform in the wee duced to the app in 2018. At the time option to alter the app icon and the
upcoming upgrades on the microblog- hours of December 29. it was available to use with apps like ability to know who has rewatched
ging platform. According to a report by Al Ja- Skype, YouTube, Zoom and Google your stories. Additional nations to be
“Can’t wait for long form tweets!! zeera, the web version of the platform Hangouts. Available on both Mac and added shortly, the new subscription
Loving the new changes and updates suffered a major outage. It was diffi- Windows operating systems, it allowed plan will debut in the United States,
so far,” a user wrote. “Boss moves. cult for many users who were greeted users to switch different filters during Canada, the UK, France, Germany,
Thank You!!!” another user wrote. with an error message when they tried a video call or a live stream. Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Ara-
Meanwhile, yet another user signing in. On Twitter, the messaging app bia, and the UAE.

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