The Cat Facts App Will Bombard Your Friends
Vasiliki Marapas — August 5, 2014 — Pop Culture
References: reddit & techcrunch
The Cat Facts app has turned the infamous Reddit prank (it's the eighth most popular post on the site) into an app that will annoy even your most cat-obsessed friends.
For those who missed it, the prank involved a unsuspecting kid who posted his cellphone number to Facebook. His older cousin took advantage of the opportunity, posing as an "automated service" that sends cat facts (such as "Did you know that the first cat show was held in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London? Mee-wow!") every hour upon the hour.
Now, you can recreate the hilarious prank in the form of a mobile app that will send similarly annoying texts to your friends. The app's creator Kyle Venn explains, “I never had any intention of actually releasing it to the App Store and did it mostly to get better as a developer [...] After rewriting it a few times and making it look a little prettier, I figured it could be something that other people on the Internet might enjoy." Amen to that!
For those who missed it, the prank involved a unsuspecting kid who posted his cellphone number to Facebook. His older cousin took advantage of the opportunity, posing as an "automated service" that sends cat facts (such as "Did you know that the first cat show was held in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London? Mee-wow!") every hour upon the hour.
Now, you can recreate the hilarious prank in the form of a mobile app that will send similarly annoying texts to your friends. The app's creator Kyle Venn explains, “I never had any intention of actually releasing it to the App Store and did it mostly to get better as a developer [...] After rewriting it a few times and making it look a little prettier, I figured it could be something that other people on the Internet might enjoy." Amen to that!
Trend Themes
1. Prank Apps - Apps that enable pranking activities among friends.
2. Humorous Messaging - Mobile apps that are designed specifically to be humorous in their messaging output.
3. Automated Messaging Services - Solutions that provide automated messaging services in a customized manner.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile App Development - Companies that work in developing mobile apps with new features that allow enhanced user interaction, such as pranking features.
2. Social Media - Industry players that specialize in providing social media platforms that can host some of these pranking-oriented mobile apps.
3. SMS Messaging Services - Companies that offer SMS messaging services that could leverage this trend to further its capabilities.
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