Facebook is cloning Taptalk to compete with Snapchat

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4a596166-de3f-11e3-8546-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz324ujNOTD

by ciaranoleary • 12 years ago

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ciaranoleary5• 12 years ago

as links to FT can be cumbersome: a screenshot pic.twitter.com/bMjXYzxp5F

ciaranoleary5• 12 years ago

link to taptalk: www.taptalk.me

BorisMelnik• 12 years ago

ahh thank you. I thought they meant "tapatalk" the popular forum viewing app.

ciaranoleary5• 12 years ago

yes that is a frequent mix-up ;)

davidkatz• 12 years ago

Anyone out here that's using TapTalk and can comment on it's quality? Is it useful/fun? What makes it better than Snapchat?

ciaranoleary5• 12 years ago

three things: i) it is much faster, 10x. it's one tap to send a video or message to someone by just holding their profile pic in a gird ii) it's purely 1-1 so every message is for you, no broadcasting iii) it's very authentic as there are no retakes, filters, etc

codeka• 12 years ago

i) It's two taps to send someone a video on Snapchat, so I'm not sure how this could be anywhere near "10x" faster. ii) many would see that as a limitation, not a feature. iii) Similarly, many would see that as a limitation not a feature.

But it seems very weird to be comparing this on a feature-by-feature basis with Snapchat anyway. I would think Snapchat already has the network effects to essentially capture the market of "ephemeral photos and videos", and what I'd like to know is, what makes this different? If I already had Snapchat installed on my phone, why would I bother to install this?

emorling• 12 years ago

I don't know about you, but I think SnapChat is for children (silly ghost mascot).

TapTalk is ridiculously fast and easy to use. The One-Tap-To-Send functionality makes it operate like a Video Walkie Talkie. You have to experience it to see what I mean.

lassecausen• 12 years ago

I love Taptalk and use it around 50 times a day. Super fast and intimate asynchronous communication with close friends.

alper2• 12 years ago

The non broadcast part of TapTalk feels limiting at first as a sender but it hugely improves the quality of the stuff you receive.

Snapchat from over here looks like an American fad. The news about how broken their approach to privacy is probably didn't help it much either.

wellboy• 12 years ago

Again, after Poke? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457866,00.asp

k-mcgrady• 12 years ago

I think they only killed Poke a couple of weeks ago too. Although Zuckerberg did call it a 'joke' quite a while ago.

ogtfaber• 12 years ago

I'm Onno, one of the founders of Taptalk - happy to answer any questions here!

applecore• 12 years ago

What is Taptalk?

higherpurpose• 12 years ago

Because cloning has worked so well for them in the past few years. How's their Foursquare competitor doing?

rrhoover• 12 years ago

Big fan of Taptalk and Onno. It's remarkably fast and the one-to-one emphasizes personal communication.

alper2• 12 years ago

Currently my Instagram social stream is being polluted with all kind of people I don't know or don't want to know thanks to Facebook's social integration. I shudder to think what would happen if Facebook would connect their social graph to a direct and intimate photo sharing service.

Ultimately two things are broken:

- Facebook's idea of what social is does not mesh with how most people see it. They seem to have huge problems dealing with non-public interactions and what that would mean for their business.

- Facebook's product design culture seems to have a hard time breaking out of the Silicon Valley bubble and adding stuff of relevance to actual people's day to day existence.

Facebook is cloning Taptalk to compete with Snapchat

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