TL; DR
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On Web3 social platforms, your username, photos, videos, text messages, messages and followers are all transferable between apps.
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Unlike other Web3 social platforms, you don’t have to pay to use Warpcast’s basic features (think posting, liking, commenting, etc.), so people are using it more often.
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‘Frames’ are the reason Warpcast BLOWN UP recently, increasing its daily active users by +400% in the past week. Frames allows developers to build experiences that would normally require a website/browser directly in Warpcast, so you never leave the feed.
Full story
Everyone is suddenly excited about Warpcast (also called the Web3 version of X/Twitter)…but why is that?
Let’s start here 
The appeal of Web3 social platforms in general:
On Web3 social platforms, your username, photos, videos, text messages, messages and followers are all transferable between apps.
So if you blew up “Web3
The appeal of Warpcast yourself:
There are a lot of Web3 X/Twitter clones out there, and no one is using them…so what does Warpcast do well??
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Unlike other Web3 social platforms, you don’t have to pay to use Warpcast’s basic features (think posting, liking, commenting, etc.), so people are using it more often.
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The ‘Farcaster’ protocol, which powers the Warpcast app, has just added a new feature called ‘Frames’.
‘Frames’ are the reason Warpcast BLOWN UP recently, increasing its daily active users by +400% in the past week.
The function works as follows:
Frames allows developers to build experiences that would normally require a website/browser directly in Warpcast, so you never leave the feed.
That sounds quite redundant (browser, not browser – who cares?), but it actually makes a lot of sense if you A/B test every experience:
Web2 social:
View a product you want to purchase → click the ‘buy’ link → a browser will open the store’s website → click add to cart, shopping cart page will open → click ‘go to checkout’ → auto-fill name/shipping information/billing address → enter card details → confirm purchase.
Warp cast:
View a product you want to buy → click ‘buy’ → auto-fill shipping details → pay directly via your linked crypto wallet.
One is high friction, while the other is ‘slippery’, if you will.
And developers have built all kinds of things, from games to a Warpcast-native store that sells Girl Scout cookies!
That said, there is one BIG intense staring problem with Warpcaster:
X/Twitter has the network effects (~260 million daily users vs ~25k of Warpcast).
We can’t imagine that some cool new developer tools and the promise of interchangeable followers/content will be enough to convince people to leave X/Twitter en masse.
The nice thing is:
If the Warpcast another app (with a new idea) maybe!
