To enable users to express their feelings more accurately when chatting, LINE has recently launched a new feature that converts text into graphics. When users are chatting and type words like “haha,” “angry” or “crap,” a corresponding sticker will pop up, enabling the user to tell their story through images, making communication more interesting.
Instant messaging software LINE, with its lively, lovable stickers, has always been a success in Taiwan, and with this recent addition to its features it has cultivated many fiercely loyal customers. Also, the original Cony, Moon and Brown characters have become even more like stars, and a range of tie-ins are selling like hotcakes. At the end of October, LINE opened its first Line Friends Store specialist outlet in Taiwan in the Song Gao branch of the Breeze Center in Taipei.
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
為了讓用戶聊天時更準確地表達當下心情,LINE近期推出「文轉圖」新功能,當用戶聊天時打出如「哈哈哈」、「怒」、「大便」等詞彙,就會有相對應的貼圖跳出來,幫助使用者「用圖說故事」,在溝通上更加生動有趣。
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即時通訊軟體LINE在台灣一向以貼圖生動、可愛取勝,也因此培養不少死忠用戶,而原創的兔兔、饅頭人和熊大更成為明星,各式周邊商品熱賣,LINE今年十月底則在台北微風松高店開出台灣首間商品專賣店。
(自由時報記者蔡穎)
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