Leave expressive comments with personalized stickers. In the onboarding flow for the feature, Facebook explains that “Your Facebook Avatar is a whole new way to express yourself on Facebook. Facebook Avatars is essentially Facebook’s version of Snapchat’s acquisition, Bitmoji, which has spent years in the top-10 apps chart.įacebook confirmed to the site’s Josh Constine that it is working on the feature, which would again almost certainly be cross-platform.įacebook confirmed it’s building Avatars, telling me, “We’re looking into more ways to help people express themselves on Facebook.” However, the feature is still early in development and Facebook isn’t sure when it will start publicly testing.
It will let users customize their avatar to depict their skin color, hair style and facial features. Hidden inside the code of Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased feature called Facebook Avatars that lets people build personalized, illustrated versions of themselves for use as stickers in Messenger and comments. Wong also spotted code indicating that Facebook is working on Bitmoji-style avatars, as TechCrunch notes. The discovery follows an embarrassing revelation by Twitter last week that a bug led to user passwords being inadvertently stored in plain text. Jane Manchun Wong tweeted (via CNET) a series of screengrabs that indicate it will be an optional feature which users can choose to switch on or not. While the code was found in an Android Package Kit (APK) – a file format used to distribute and install Android apps – it is near-certain that it would be a cross-platform feature.
A computer science student spotted code which supports the use of end-to-end encryption … Twitter appears to be working on supporting encrypted direct messages, with a feature currently labelled Secret Conversations.
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