{"id":79558,"date":"2017-03-09T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=79558"},"modified":"2017-04-06T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T22:34:26","slug":"wattpads-new-app-tap-allows-users-to-create-chat-style-stories","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/wattpads-new-app-tap-allows-users-to-create-chat-style-stories","title":{"rendered":"Wattpad&#8217;s New App, Tap, Allows Users to Create Chat-Style Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wattpad&#8217;s latest app, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taptaptap.co\/\">Tap<\/a>, now has a key new feature: the ability to create.<\/p>\n<p>Tap is a free app for short, chat-style stories, and now users can contribute their own interactive stories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stories unfold via chat messages, as if you\u2019re reading someone\u2019s text conversation,&#8221; says Wattpad. &#8220;You move the story forward by simply tapping to reveal the next part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wattpad says beyond the text, there are custom story covers and images that can appear behind the chat bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>Wattpad recommends starting with a popular Tap story like <a href=\"https:\/\/taptaptap.co\/story\/89429f79-c7b3\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/taptaptap.co\/story\/89429f79-c7b3&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1489076617039000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIZBlE-6htVfVXMvmZqRBFVSL1IQ\">Buried Alive<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/taptaptap.co\/story\/9078ede3-6823\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/taptaptap.co\/story\/9078ede3-6823&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1489076617039000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFuIqS-Qs1Gks1FSzsvWvoTann-aQ\">Virtual Boyfriend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/12\/01\/wattpad-master-plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wattpad&#8217;s latest app, Tap, now has a key new feature: the ability to create. Tap is a free app for short, chat-style stories, and now users can contribute their own interactive stories. &#8220;The stories unfold via chat messages, as if you\u2019re reading someone\u2019s text conversation,&#8221; says Wattpad. &#8220;You move the story forward by simply tapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":79591,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[266,121,224],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-79558","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-app","tag-mobile","tag-wattpad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/79591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79558"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=79558"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=79558"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=79558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}