Who knew that a quiz game could be so social?
QuizUp is a popular quiz app from 2014 that uses user-submitted trivia questions as a source for friendly competition among friends. In its early stages of development, QuizUp was downloaded more than five million times and raised more than 22 million dollars in funding. However, the app fell off the app market as quickly as it got on there.
However, the app's design team aren't letting the declining interest in their app get them down. The team is now looking to incorporate social networking features into their quiz game. This is partly because a significant portion of QuizUp's user community are pretty social.
"Fans have started spending as much time chatting with one another and on the service's group discussion boards as they are challenging one another to rounds of trivia, which only run about a minute to a minute and a half in length," The Verge reported. "Those places that were once envisioned as a side feature have morphed into the places where people gravitate."
The first major change that QuizUp has made to its interface is taking the user's topics of interest and putting them in a feed for public viewing. Users can follow other users as easily as they can follow new topics of interest. If a new item is posted to the relevant feed, then the user will see the update.
QuizUp CEO Thor Fridriksson said that this is just the first step towards building a fully functional social network. "I think that what we want to do, and our vision going forward, is connecting people with shared interests," Fridriksson told The Verge. "We have built a platform we can iterate on."
QuizUp's new social-centric update is available for download now.
