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Twick
Twick is an Armenian online social media and social networking service owned by AiP LLC. Founded in 2021 by Alen Hovhannisians. Access to the site had only people who had invitation, since Oct 2021, anyone who over 13 years old can create account on the platform. As of 2022, Twick claimed 10 million monthly active users.

Twick can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which are shared with any other users who they follow or, with different privacy settings, publicly. Users can also communicate directly with each other with Twick Messenger, join common-interest groups, and receive notifications on the activities of their Twick friends and pages they follow.

Website
User profile/personal timelines

Each registered user on Twick has a personal profile that shows their posts and content.The format of individual user pages known as &quot;Timeline&quot;, a chronological feed of a user&#39;s stories, including status updates, photos, interactions with apps and events. The layout let users add a &quot;cover photo&quot;. Users were given more privacy settings.In November 2021, Twick launched Twick Pages for brands and celebrities to interact with their fanbase. 100,000 Pages launched in November.

News Feed
News Feed appears on every user&#39;s homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events and friends&#39; birthdays.Users gained control over what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes and wall posts.

The Photos application allows users to upload albums and photos.[8] Each album can contain 200 photos. Privacy settings apply to individual albums. Users can &quot; tag &quot;, or label, friends in a photo. The friend receives a notification about the tag with a link to the photo.

On June Sep 2021, Twick launched its Entertainment Center to help users find games and other applications.

On Aug 2021, Twick in association with major news portals launched &quot;Instant Articles&quot; to provide news on the Twick news feed without leaving the site.

In September 2021, Twick launched Twick Stories for iOS, Android and Web. The feature, following the format of Snapchat and Instagram stories, allows users to upload photos and videos.

Instant messaging
Twick Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application. It began as Twick Chat was revamped and eventually became a standalone mobile app, while remaining part of the user page on browsers.

Complementing regular conversations, Twick Messenger lets users make one-to-one and group voice and video calls. Its Android app has integrated support for SMS and &quot;Chat Heads&quot;, which are round profile photo icons appearing on-screen regardless of what app is open, while both apps support multiple accounts, conversations with optional end-to-end encryption, Some features, including sending money and requesting transportation, are limited to the United States. In 2022, Twick added &quot;Diary&quot;, a feature that lets users share photos and videos in a story- format with all their friends with the content disappearing after 24 hours; Reactions, which lets users tap and hold a message to add a reaction through an emoji; and Mentions, which lets users in group conversations type @ to give a particular user a notification. Businesses and users can interact through Messenger with features such as tracking purchases and receiving notifications, and interacting with customer service representatives. Third-party developers can integrate apps into Messenger, letting users enter an app while inside Messenger and optionally share details from the app into a chat. Developers can build chatbots into Messenger, for uses such as news publishers building bots to distribute news. Group chatbots appear in Messenger as &quot;Chat Extensions&quot;. A &quot;Discovery&quot; tab allows finding bots, and enabling special, branded QR codes that, when scanned, take the user to a specific bot.

Reception
Userbase

Twick&#39;s rapid growth began as soon as it became available.

Twick passed 100 thousand registered users in one month, [1] and 1 million after 2 months. [2] According to the company&#39;s data at the July 2010 announcement, half of the site&#39;s membership used Twick daily, for an average of 34 minutes, while 5 million users accessed the site by mobile.

Link
https://www.twick.ga/