App That Lets People Make Personalized Emojis Is the Fastest Growing App In Past Two Years (axios.com)

From a report on Axios: Bitmoji is the fastest-growing app in America, per comScore, with a more than 5000 percent increase in monthly unique visitors over the past two years. E-commerce apps OfferUp and Letgo are the 2nd and 3rd fastest-growing apps. The findings from comScore's latest study highlight three of the fastest-growing mobile market trends:

E-commerce: Letgo (3), OfferUp (2), Flipp (4), Venmo (5) and Wish (7), are facilitating real-world marketplace transactions.

Travel: Uber (6), Waze (8) and Lyft (9) all help users travel from one point to another via auto.

Social connectivity: Tinder (10), Bitmoji (1) and GroupMe (11) all facilitate gatherings and social interaction. FastCompany wrote a profile of Bitmoji and why so many people seem to be a big fan of it.

Comments

No it isn't

[AuMatar]

My app, FuckSlahdotAds is the fastest growing app. It has grown from 0 users to 1 in the last 3 seconds, an infinite% increase.

This is by far the lowest value, least use slashvertisement I've ever seen.

Re:No it isn't

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you for that massively insightful input. This article is now infinitely more valuable thanks to your contribution.

Re:No it isn't

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting, how does it work? Are you looking for investors? The less it makes, the more money I'm willing to lend you.

Re:No it isn't

[Megol]

You are doing it wrong - here's how you do it:

Emojis as generally used in forums, social media and phone-based messages are idiotic crap. Not only are there 10Gi versions of emojis (to make sure one can select a specific type that nobody knows what it actually means) but they look different on different platforms to ensure that not even those that would like to learn every single (useless) emoji have any chance to master the crap.

ASCII emojis are sometimes useful to add _some_ extra information and (if not automagically translated to animated crap as referenced above) is universal, WYSIWYG. Sure there are a lot of extra ASCII based crap too but they aren't used in practice, the crap mentioned above _ARE_ being used widely by idiots that can't understand that actually writing down what is to be communicated is better than using an obscure symbol...

And here we go further in effort to obfuscate communication by allowing the idiots to make more crap. Holy fucking shit is this scary!

(Or something like that - much more efficient IMHO ;)> )

And I don't have a single one of these installed

[Anonymous Coward]

I dunno if that's a good or a bad thing...

You get what you pay for

[pteddy]

and you ain't paying shit for Slashdot!

Re:You get what you pay for

[Neuronwelder]

Don't give them any ideas!

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[avandesande]

What is a 'personalized emoji'? It's always heartening to hear about people using technology for the betterment of mankind....

Mandatory XKCD

[Shimbo]

https://xkcd.com/1813/

Re:Mandatory XKCD

[tinkerton]

Actually you have to say 'Obligatory' instead of "Mandatory". Obligatory is mandatory here.

Re:Mandatory XKCD

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, that's hilarious.

Re:Mandatory XKCD

[Anonymous Coward]

This also applies https://xkcd.com/1102/

Re:Mandatory XKCD

[spaceman375]

This one is more relevant: https://xkcd.com/1709/

Re: Mandatory XKCD

[Frosty Piss]

Don't let him in on the secrets, he's just some "/\/00b3"...

Emoji is the best app use

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine your life converted in to one tiny emoji. That is what the masses want.

I've never heard of most of these

[93 Escort Wagon]

Okay, yeah I know what Uber, Lyft, Waze, and Tinder are. But I suspect they're included in the list specifically to give credence to the idea these other unknown apps are "hot".

1 user to 50 users = 5000% increase!

But I'm sure there are no financial ties between these unknown apps and the people producing this "survey"...

Re:I've never heard of most of these

[CanadianMacFan]

Flipp is good for shopping because you can go through the advertisements that are sent out from the grocery stores to compare prices and if a store does price matching they use the ads stored on the app as proof. I've saved quite a bit of money with the app over the past year or so. Though every time they come out with an update it's becoming less user friendly. For example, the favourite shops used to be sorted by store name but now I think it's by when the sale ends. I always go into that tab to look for a particular store so it's not as useful to me.

Re:I've never heard of most of these

[Anonymous Coward]

1 user to 50 users = 4900% increase!

FTFY

Re:I've never heard of most of these

[93 Escort Wagon]

Guess I shouldn't post before I've had that first cup of coffee...

Re: I've never heard of most of these

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you really save money if you don't view your time as worthless? Example:

A case of soda varies in price from 1x on good sale to 1.7x when not on sale, or 3x bought as singles. I generally wait until it is on sale and buy enough to get me to the next expected sale.

Pasta sauce, canned goods, dry goods all work that way. Even meat, milk and veggies can work that way if you have space for a decent freezer. I hate when I see cookies on sale. It weakens my resolve to not buy crap I dont need (besides soda anyway). I dont want to see something that draws me down the cookie aisle.

Don't get me wrong, living in America means looking at a multipage grocery store flyer can be fun. The flyer does. Ot say'
Milk: No
Meat: No
Corn flour: 1000 ookabookas over kg.

  We have a hundred different kinds of toothpaste in a big super market and shopping for shopping sake and exploration is fun. But sometimes I just want to grab some lamb or whatever to make something different but still healthyish for dinner.

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a bad thing. You could be making millions but instead you're wasting time on Slashdot, and not even for moderation points.

1) Buy stock in the legal firms.
2) Install the apps
3) Clone your phone's storage
4) Uninstall the apps
5) Restore the clone
6) Repeat steps 3 then 4 until all the companies report zero installs.
7) Inform app companies of the massive copyright infringement, since no one has installed their apps yet everyone is using them.
8) Accept award money from app companies
9) Sell stock after legal firms announce partnership with the app companies but before the lawsuits start.
0) Use the ton of money to buy a chocolate candy factory
-1) Rename produced candy to "millions"

Any questions? If so, figure them out on your own.

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[Anonymous Coward]

It's one of those kid programs from decades ago where you have a basic template and can add hair, glasses, change colors, etc... I don't remember the program name, but I played with something similar on my Amiga over 20 years ago. Basically it's cool now because some marketer paid a bunch of people to lie about it on social media so that others would think it's trendy and thus they too start using it in order to not feel left out of an imaginary, fake, and useless peer group.

Then you can send the picture to your friends so that the company can build a network of your contacts. I wonder how long until you can make the little avatars hold a Coke bottle or how much you'll need to pay to give them Nike shoes.

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[chipschap]

What's really fascinating in a disheartening way is that an emoji app is at the top of the list. It says a lot about "smart" phone/device users, at least on a collective basis.

I'm glad I'm not so shallow, and use my smartphone for serious and productive purposes, like playing card games.

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[CanadianMacFan]

It's where they make the poo emoji look like them.

i can see this working well.

[nimbius]

its all fun and games until someone makes a personalized emoji consisting of the personalized emoji maker.

Hi-rez

[PopeRatzo]

My personalized emoji is basically The Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch, except with the face of a kitty superimposed over St Anthony.

You know what they say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Apps that app other apps get apped!

Apps!

Voyger

[thinkwaitfast]

I got into computers so that I could make outer space robots. I wonder what kids get into computers for today?

Where's the technology angle?

[najajomo]

Is this what slashdot has come to, posting free adverts for an emoji selling company under the guise of an article?

Re: And I don't have a single one of these install

[Frosty Piss]

The poo emoji is the most useful emoji in the emoji universe. Say it with me "We love the poo emoji! We love the poo emoji!" It's almost as wonderful as the Frosty Piss emoji!

Unicode

[ath1901]

Wow! Somebody better call the unicode people. They have a LOT of work ahead of them!

Dear Slashvertisement Editors

[Anonymous Coward]

"FastCompany wrote a profile of Bitmoji and why so many people seem to be a big fan of it."

Perhaps you could too! Or at least give us a summary of that profile/article. I mean, otherwise, your audience ain't gonna click that, as you can see by the dismal number of comments here.

Re: Dear Slashvertisement Editors

[Anonymous Coward]

Even more so the inevitable slide into dismal reality , as the masses realize that slashvertisements must be stopped, no matter the cost............

Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe

[corezz]

Bonus points for having an Amiga computer.