Have you ever taken a selfie? Well, we are sure you must have tried it at least once even if you are not a “professional” selfie taker. While front cameras on smartphones have been around a while with the option of taking your own picture with them, in recent years the trend taking selfies went viral. These days, you will see selfies in various applications that you have signed up on. If you do not know what a selfie is it refers to a picture you take of yourself using your mobile device or even a webcam. Selfies are also shared widely on social media. By 2013, selfies became a huge and successful online trend and a hashtag on Twitter. Today, around the globe many teenagers and even individuals belonging to various age groups are aware of what a selfie is and how to take a selfie. Imagine you run a successful Instagram account where you post and shares pictures of the food you test because you inspire to be a food blogger. You must have added a couple of selfies of yourself from time to time to make sure your followers know who you are. Selfies have become a great way to personalize your account no matter which application you use. However, would you be interested in having a little fun with your selfies? Selfies are known to be used for judging, rating and critiquing people on social media. While selfies are either amateur or professional, we now have an application that lets you be comical with them. This article will tell you all about what Shots is, how to use it and most important of all, how can you get Shots on iPhone and Android phones!
If you are live everyday with taking selfies, you must have heard and used Shots. However, those who are new to the selfie game might need a little introduction. Shots is a selfie application but with a little twist. This application is a product of Shots studios. When this application was introduced, it had almost 8 million users right in the beginning. While it became hard for this application to compete with similar applications like Instagram and Snapchat, once it received funding from Justin Bieber, the users doubled and tripled. Shots began as an application for taking comical selfies and sharing them with friends. This application is developed by John Shahidi and Sam Shahidi almost 6 years from now. While today shots has become a video-playing application that is connected to various famous comedians on social media, Shots first started with a different purpose that was relevant to the new generation’s popular trend: A new take on the selfie obsession of teenagers.
Why do you need Shots in your life? This application which is available for download on both iPhone and Android phones, will help you add some fun in your daily social media activity. Are you bored of sharing an image or videos with everyone in your friend list and list of followers? Are you tired of typing statuses and tweets? Are you tired of posting memes? Well, this application includes only taking pictures of yourself and sending it to your friends. They will last with them for a day and then they will be removed forever! Unless of course you saved them before sending them out. Say you have a best friend and a friend whom you are getting to know. What time of selfies would you send to your best friend as compared to a recent friend? We bet you would love to send some humor filled and “ugly”‘ selfies to your best friend because you are not afraid of being judged. Whereas the selfies you share on Shots with your friend would contain you being sophisticated. That’s the line you can maintain with this application. Tell your friends and family about what you are doing right this moment or where are you right this moment. If you are sold, you should get shots on iPhone and Android devices right now.
How must I get Shots on iPhone and Android?
If you are an Android user, you can download Shots by simply searching for it in your play store application. Once you find Shots in the search results simply click on it. When you open the download window, you will click on Install and the application will begin to download. Make sure you have enough space for this application to download without any errors. If you are and iPhone user, you will take a little visit to your iTunes account. Here on the iTunes account, you will search for Shots. In the result section, click on the first application with title “Shots” and a blue logo. Then click on download to install it in your iPhone.
Once you get Shots on iPhone and Android, you will have to understand how this application works for you and the features of Shots you can avail. In the following section then, we will teach you how to set up an account with Shots on iPhone and Android!
How do I sign up with Shots on iPhone and Android?
Once the application is installed in your phone, the sign up process is the same for Shots on iPhone and Android. Unless you already have an account on Shots, you can just log in with your application and continue sending selfies of yourself! If not, you should follow this guide:
- Click on the sign up button when you launch the application on your device.
- You will then be asked to register your phone number. For that, select your country and provide your phone number.
- Once you do that, you will receive an automated call or a message that will confirm your number.
- Then you will move forward with providing your email address and setting your password.
Trust us, that is all that Shots require from you to get you signed in. Now that you have followed our guide regarding sign up for Shots on iPhone and Android, you can begin your fun. And if you wish to enhance the level of entertainment you can achieve with Shots, you should read ahead and find out what Shots contains for you!
Now that I have downloaded, Installed and Signed up for Shots on iPhone and Android, what can I do with it?
Once you have successfully created an account with Shots, you will be able to get tutorials regarding how to use this application. Since the creators of this application wanted to make this application comical and humor filled for the users, these tutorials include puppets teaching you the how to sections. You will get to know how you can add your photos and videos, find your friends on Shots, update your Shots profile and share, copy or paste links. From your home screen, you will be provided notifications about who wants to add you as a friend, who has accepted your request and so on. You can also set a profile picture to personalize your account. If you want to add friends to your Shots profile, you just have to go to your home screen and click on the Add Friend button in the middle of the top three buttons. You can search for your friends in the search bar through their usernames or email addresses. Shots also scans your contact list to see any users that have an account on Shots.
Once you have friends on Shots, you can send them instant messages, share links with them and share your pictures or videos with them. What’s the fun part here is that this application allows you to connect with complete strangers. Use the Radar setting and you can find Shots users nearby. Then you can chat and add them on your account. You can also share your Shots profile on other social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and so on. This will help you market your account as well gain more friends if the users on these applications are Shots users as well!
You must be noticing that this application has features that are above just sharing selfies with your friends, family and total strangers. Ever since this application was launched, it has gone through a lot of modifications. The developers added more and more features for Shots users to enhance their experience. Now you will notice that you can do more than just share weird selfies of yourself with people you know or do not know. The following is a list of new features:
- Add your family and friends to Shots just like many other social media platforms.
- You can now have private chats with the people you add or those who have added you.
- You can watch funny videos uploaded by other accounts. Since this application attracted a lot of socially famous comedians, the following is a list of comedians you can follow and add on Shots:
- Larry Wilmore
- Lele Pons
- Marlon Wayans
- Nash Grier
- Dane Cook
- Destorm Power
- King Bach
- Brittany Furlan
- Chris D’Elia
Shots also allows you to make camcorder videos. These videos will look like they were made back in the 80’s and 90’s. We hope all of these features sound fun enough to make you download Shots on iPhone and Android!
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