{"id":5119,"date":"2017-05-02T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/treeos-new-social-polling-game-lets-you-vote-with-emojis.html"},"modified":"2017-05-02T21:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:07:39","slug":"treeos-new-social-polling-game-lets-you-vote-with-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/treeos-new-social-polling-game-lets-you-vote-with-emojis.html","title":{"rendered":"Treeo\u2019s new social polling game lets you vote with emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A new social polling game called\u00a0Treeo<\/a> has launched its modern-day (and cleaned up version) of the\u00a0popular party game, f*ck, marry, kill. <\/em>But this time, instead of voting on your plans for celebrity crushes, you\u2019re voting on other topics categorized into sections like Home, Fashion, Movies, Food, Music, Sports, and Politics. And the way you vote is different as well: you drag the photo to an\u00a0emoji that\u00a0represents your feeling toward the topic at hand.<\/p>\n

Generally, these emoji are meant to indicate \u201cpositive,\u201d \u201cjust okay,\u201d and \u201cbad,\u201d but because Treeo also features user-generated content, they can really be anything you like.<\/p>\n

Social polling apps aren\u2019t new, and they can be popular \u2013 currently,\u00a0the tween and teen-friendly Wishbone<\/a>\u00a0is winning with its millions<\/a> of users, for example. These apps\u00a0function largely\u00a0as time-wasters, but they\u2019re also social barometers arriving at a time when the app\u2019s\u00a0young users care very much about the opinions shared by their peer group.<\/p>\n

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Treeo is similar in that respect. Like Wishbone, it\u2019s taking the temperature of its user base on its pop culture-infused questions, but in a way that elicits a different set of answers. It\u2019s no longer a game of \u201cwould you rather\u2026?,\u201d, but is instead, \u201cwhich is this?\u201d<\/p>\n

Indie developer Mike Rundle came up with the idea for Treeo after selling his earlier app Filters for iPhone to tap tap tap<\/a>, the makers of Camera+. He and a friend decided to research why the 3\u00d73 celeb voting game was so popular, and realized that it\u2019s not just the game\u2019s racy nature that makes it fun to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that the core reason it\u2019s popular is for two reasons: the first is because it\u2019s satisfying for humans to classify things into buckets, the second is because it forces people to make slightly uncomfortable choices \u2013 which makes it a whole lot more fun, sort of a mental challenge or a brain teaser in many ways,\u201d says Rundle.<\/p>\n

The friends then decided to code this experience into a socially addicting app, which led to the creation of Treeo.\u00a0(Rundle\u2019s friend is still working full-time and declined to be named.)<\/p>\n

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While the app\u2019s makers\u00a0seed content in the seven main categories, anyone can create their own \u201cTreeo\u201d as these 3\u00d73 groupings are known. The content for the Treeo\u2019s images can come from their Camera Roll, phone camera or via the built-in GIF and image search. The images can optionally have a title, description and URL, and the overall Treeo can also have an optional text description.\u00a0You then pick the emoji categories you want to use for voting, or you can even customize your own.<\/p>\n

If that sounds like too much work, you can just sit back and vote on the Treeos in the app instead. To do so, you drag the emoji to the image to indicate your vote. Afterwards, you\u2019re shown how your vote compares with the popular vote, as well as how your friends voted.<\/p>\n

The added ability to see friends\u2019 votes makes Treeo more social. Plus, you can reply to friends\u2019\u00a0votes by tapping on emoji or writing full messages. Those replies appear in the app\u2019s Activity tab.<\/p>\n

However, because you\u2019re voting on sets of three, the ability to compare votes is a little trickier than with an app like Wishbone.<\/p>\n

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The app also has sections for browsing its\u00a0most popular, featured, trending, and newest content.<\/p>\n

While the overall concept sounds like this is yet another voting app designed to appeal to teens, Rundle believes Treeo could pick up among older users, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWishbone has focused on the tween\/teen demographic in the past year or so, but if you dive into the commentary online and their reviews on the App Store, there\u2019s a huge contingent of users who have been turned off as the content has been skewing younger,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal has always been to create a new type of social network where the atomic unit of content isn\u2019t a photo or text, but a miniature interactive game\u2026we want to make sure Treeo has something to offer all demographics without turning anyone off,\u201d Rundle adds.<\/p>\n

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The app may eventually monetize through ads in the Treeos. The team is talking to some online retail brands about those options, but has nothing to announce here yet.<\/p>\n

After being live for 24 hours, Treeo says it\u2019s seen over 40,000 votes casts, and had a small number of users hanging around the app for an hour which is a promising start.<\/p>\n

Treeo is a free download on the iPhone\u00a0App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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