New Microsoft app Twist is like Instagram chat<article>
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The premise of Twist, Microsoft’s new “photo conversation” app, is relatively simple: sometimes, a picture is worth
all the words.</p><p>
Stealing a page from Instagram and other photo-based apps, the
Twist app is the latest from Microsoft Garage, an experimental app development shop within Microsoft. With Twist, users exchange photos in a fleeting, casual conversation, letting the photos (with a few snippets of embedded text) tell the story. </p><p>
But Microsoft deliberately laid out Twist so that one picture runs into another, creating either a flow of images, an ironic juxtaposition, a mashup, or more. Microsoft researchers said they were inspired by how some people are now not only using image memes as commentary, but to communicate as well.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2992569/ios-apps/new-microsoft-app-twist-is-like-instagram-chat.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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New Microsoft app Twist is like Instagram chat
