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Whoop launched a social network where every user has a ‘verified heartbeat’

By · Via The Verge · Published by Everything Blog

In short

Whoop Humans sits within the existing Community tab, coexisting with the platform's current Teams leaderboards. Members can share Story-style Moments featuring photos, captions, and vital metrics like sleep, strain, and recovery scores. Followers viewing exercise posts can swipe up to examine granular stats such as pace, distance, and running route maps. To safeguard personal details, users can utilize a Stealth Mode feature to temporarily mask health metrics without altering standard settings.

Key points

  • The platform uses hardware-confirmed heartbeats to keep automated bots and artificial int…: The platform uses hardware-confirmed heartbeats to keep automated bots and artificial intelligence off the network.
  • Granular controls allow users to keep sensitive activities private and choose which healt…: Granular controls allow users to keep sensitive activities private and choose which health metrics are visible.
  • A built-in Stealth Mode lets members temporarily conceal performance data without resetti…: A built-in Stealth Mode lets members temporarily conceal performance data without resetting their baseline privacy preferences.

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Starting Thursday, Whoop members can share their data from its wearables on the app’s new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and achievements visible to other Whoop wearers, post Story-like “Moments” with photos and captions, and add comments and reactions on other members’ posts.

Whoop launched a social network where every user has a ‘verified heartbeat’

Whoop’s new Humans platform is like Instagram Stories with updates from your friends’ fitness tracker data.

Whoop’s new Humans platform is like Instagram Stories with updates from your friends’ fitness tracker data.

Whoop claims its platform is “entirely human,” unlike other social media platforms that are “saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and manufactured content.”

Whoop CEO Will Ahmed says Humans is “the most verifiably human network ever launched. Every account represents a real person with a verified heartbeat.” Whoop says its existing Teams social feature “will remain available,” allowing people to share strain, recovery, and sleep data along with group leaderboards.

In the Community tab in Whoop’s app, users can scroll through Moments from people they’re following,…

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