
Users will also be able to include their Bitmoji along with a friend, which Snapchat is calling "Friendmojis." If a user double taps to reply to a Snap, Friendmojis will appear in Snap stickers. If they already have a Bitmoji account, they will be able to link that to their Snapchat account, or create a new Bitmoji specificially for Snapchat.


In order to access Bitmojis, users have to download the Bitmoji app, create their Bitmoji avatar, and then go to Snapchat Settings to link their accounts.

The purchase price of the deal was reportedly $100 million, but a spokesperson for Snapchat would not comment on the financial details.īitmojis will be available within two areas of the Snapchat experience: c hat sticker and s nap stickers. Now Snapchat has finally confirmed it through, of course, a comic strip.Īll the members of the Bitstrips team will be coming to work at Snapchat. The purchase was first reported back in March, but neither company would comment the deal at the time. The crucial aspect of buying Bitstrips was getting access to Bitmoji, which allows users to create avatars of themselves, then insert them anywhere they communicate on the Web, including Gmail, Messenger and Slack. Now, it has added in personalized emoji through the acquisition of Bitstrips, an app that allows people to create comic strip versions of themselves. The company, with its lenses and stickers, allows its users to create some really cool, and interesting, content. While Snapchat's main selling point at the beginning of its life was its disappearing content, that seems to have shifted recently in favor of another aspect: creativity. The company has been rolling out features for sprucing up content, including animated emoji on video
