Swarm updates app with simpler messaging and group chat
Foursquare’s bringing some much needed simplicity to its standalone Swarm app today, removing the old “plans” feature that let users publicly (and awkwardly) ask all of their friends to hang out. That’s been ditched in favor of a private messaging system. “We think it will bring up the value of neighborhood sharing, which lets you see your friends’ general proximity, and we hope that this will help people start reaching out to their nearby friends a little more often,” product manager Nick Burton told TechCrunch. That gives off the impression that not many people were using the old plans functionality anyway. Messages can be sent individually, in group chats, or blasts to everyone in case you did for some reason prefer the old way. Swarm…
Source:: The Verge
