Bitstrips: Those Comic Strips on Facebook Explained
Your Facebook feed might look a bit more cartoonish these days. No, Facebook hasn’t redesigned its News Feed again, but there is a very good chance your friends have started to post images like the one above, making your modern news source look a lot like an old-style newspaper comics page.
So, where the heck are all these colorful sketched ladies and men coming from? A Facebook mobile app called Bitstrips.
The app isn’t exactly new — the company launched its Facebook app in December 2012 — but it just released its iPhone app at the end of September and updated it earlier this week, along with its Android app.
And Bitstrips seems to be catching on.
App Data, a website that tracks app downloads, today listed BitStrips as the top downloaded app in Apple’s App Store and in the Google Play Android store.
And making a Bitstrip through the apps or Facebook couldn’t be easier. If you’re on your phone, sign in with your Facebook username and start designing the cartoon version of you. Give yourself a good hair style, put on some makeup (if that’s your thing), adjust the size of your face if you like, and then pick out an outfit.