Friday, April 29, 2016

Facebook "Bitstrips" No More


Users of Facebook may be familiar with "Bitstrips," cartoons that some used posted on their pages, and would appear on their friends' public feed like other posts. Unfortunately, it seems the Bitsrip fun is over. Someone who was a regular user posted this on her page on April 25.

Yesterday, there were questions out of surprised confusion about the BitStrips situation.. the BitStrips app on Facebook has been stopped and it's over.. to dispel any doubt, and to provide a promised update, here is the picture that greeted me when i tried to access new BitStrips yesterday. sorry, folks.. and thanks for following with me. I hope you got as much enjoyment out of seeing them as i had making them.


But the bitstrip pictures she had already done and saved as pictures were still in her pictures section, as were those done by SL Enquirer editor Lanai Jarrico. The one she did of me as a joke was still on my page.

Bitstrips were created by Jacob Blackstock, whom described himself as having a "lifelong passion" for comics. He came up with the idea for Bitstrips in 2007, and launched it as a mobile app in 2008. With it, people can create "avatars" of themselves, then put them in customized comic-strip scenes on the Bitstrip site to create their own cartoons, with no drawing skill needed, "We kind of saw it as a Youtube for comics." Originally for mobile devices, when the Facebook application was made available in October 2013, the number of users jumped from 2 million to 30 million in a month. Bitsrtips user were at first able to create avatars of their friends, but after Facebook changed it's Terms of Service in regards to privacy, after April 2015 they were no longer able to do so.

Last month, Snapchat bought up Bitmoji, the company that owns Bitstrips, for $100,000. It's possible that the company is integrating the technology in it's own products rather than let it continue as a separate app on Facebook.

No doubt Facebook's bitstrip fans will miss doing the comics. Perhaps They could continue to do so using Second Life and MORPG screenshots using graphics programs.

Sources: Facebook, The Guardian, Techcrunch

Bixyl Shuftan

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  3. So pissed bemoji is not the same it only lets u do you not have fun with your firends and family so �� mad!!!!

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  4. Dude efin really this is total bs all the apps for fb I love are gone and there are no good repacments I mean wtf take a damn pole next time to see how many people love it and use BEFORE you even think about getting rid of it I am so sick of all the fun fb stuff being taken away ef that bs!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. This really sucks Big Time!!! Really upset about this!!!

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  6. Thanks a lot for sharing us about this update. Hope you will not get tired on making posts as informative as this.
    Facebook

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  7. I loved Bitstrips. Facebook bring it back!!!!

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  10. Screw you for removing it asswipes

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  11. Time to create apps that can work on messenger with your contacts as well as SMS,facebook has incorporated into communistic view points ,maybe personalise should be incorporated into our own SMS messaging ,make it happen,just watch ,it's in the works now people

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  12. Time to create apps that can work on messenger with your contacts as well as SMS,facebook has incorporated into communistic view points ,maybe personalise should be incorporated into our own SMS messaging ,make it happen,just watch ,it's in the works now people

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  13. Time to create apps that can work on messenger with your contacts as well as SMS,facebook has incorporated into communistic view points ,maybe personalise should be incorporated into our own SMS messaging ,make it happen,just watch ,it's in the works now people

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