Welcome to the Connected Church News by Natchi Lazarus.
This news item is part of the top 5 news (Week 2, May 2024) specially curated for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
Snapchat has released a set of new features, including one that has been highly requested, which is the ability to edit chats. You can now edit your Snapchat message that you send to someone within five minutes of sending it before they reply, and this will soon be rolled out to paid Snapchat+ subscribers. Now let’s get to the AI powered features. The first one is AI reminders. You can ask Snapchat AI to remind you or set a countdown for an event or a meeting or a get together that’s coming up and the app will be able to help you with that. Bitmojis are something that’s very popular within the platform. Now you can get the help of AI to design the outfit for your Bitmojis. The final feature is about 90s AI powered lens, which takes you back in time to the 90s. And Snapchat says more than 40 million snaps have been done by the users using these 90s AI lens.
Here is the full list of the news items from Week 2, May 2024 with source links from Claude AI, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Pinterest.
🗞️ News 1: Anthropic AI Announces Release of an iOS App for Claude & New Team Plan
Source: Anthropic
🗞️ News 2: WhatsApp’s Communities Feature Gets New Tools including Group ‘Events’
Source: WhatsApp
🗞️ News 3: Snapchat Releases New Gen-AI Tools & DM Edit Feature in the App
Source: Snapchat
🗞️ News 4: LinkedIn Launches New In-stream ‘Thinking-Oriented’ Social Games
Source: LinkedIn
🗞️ News 5: Pinterest says Gen-Z are Behind Increased Engagement in ‘Collage-Pins’
Source: Pinterest
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.
