Discord Acquires Gas, the Popular App For Teens To Compliment Each Other (theverge.com) 27
Discord has acquired the Gas social app, a poll-based app for friends to share compliments with each other. "The app is designed for anonymous compliments and positive affirmations or, as kids say, gassing your friends up," reports The Verge. From the report: Gas has polls that ask users to vote for things like the most beautiful person they've met or the classmate that isn't afraid to get in trouble. It has soared in popularity among high schoolers since launching in August. One of the co-creators of TBH, a very similar teenager app acquired and shut down by Facebook, created Gas, which has caught the attention of more than 1 million daily active users and 30,000 new users per hour in October.
"Gas' founders have a proven track record of creating exciting apps and experiences, and we're thrilled to work with their team to take things to the next level," says Discord in a blog post announcing the Gas acquisition. "At this time, Gas will continue as its own standalone app and the Gas team will be joining Discord to help our efforts to continue to grow across new and core audiences." Discord hasn't disclosed the terms of its Gas acquisition, but it's clearly part of a broader and continued effort to target communities and users outside of just gaming.
"Gas' founders have a proven track record of creating exciting apps and experiences, and we're thrilled to work with their team to take things to the next level," says Discord in a blog post announcing the Gas acquisition. "At this time, Gas will continue as its own standalone app and the Gas team will be joining Discord to help our efforts to continue to grow across new and core audiences." Discord hasn't disclosed the terms of its Gas acquisition, but it's clearly part of a broader and continued effort to target communities and users outside of just gaming.
Gas(lighting) (Score:2)
I guess blow-smoke-up-random-ass.com was taken?
Not that this could ever possibly lead to not-a-good-thing, especially in a world full of fragile narcissists social media created...
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Blow smoke up my what? Mmm, smell that Gas.
Re: Gas(lighting) (Score:2)
If there's money to be made, people will invest. The company I work for has two separate subscription services, which (among other things) allow you to send little recognition notes and compliments to colleagues.
If there's money in it, people will start huffing gas.
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I wonder how they know. . (Score:3)
"I love how big your nose is !"
"Your google phone is adorable !"
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And if you send any message which isn't a compliment, you probably get banned for the breach of terms and conditions. ;-)
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"Man walks down the street wearing a hat like that, you know he's not afraid of anything."
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There's a reason they want a phone number to sign up. Phone numbers require effort and money to get. Not a huge amount, but enough that 99.9% of trolls don't bother and just move on to easier targets.
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Well this app couldn't go wrong at all. (Score:3)
"You did an awesome job of failing that test!"
"Wow, your boobs look great. I wish you would show them off more."
Seriously, it's like nobody thought this through.
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Need something for older people (Score:2)
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Thankster (Score:2)
Thank you for that.
Slashvertisement again? (Score:2)
Re: Slashvertisement again? (Score:1)
App Name (Score:1)