The development of new features and tools by internet giants is usually accompanied by a veil of mystery. And it is that, although it seems exaggerated to take as a state secret the creation of a filter for our selfies, for large corporations this feature could mean the difference between huge gains or losses on the stock marketso they keep the secret well guarded…until Jane Manchun Wong finds out.
The young woman capable of discovering the functions of technological apps before their launch
We are quite sure that if you are an avid reader of our publications and a fan of digital platforms, you have heard of Jane Manchun Wong on more than one occasion.
Thanks to your great passion for finding new features on digital platforms, We were able to tell you, for example, that Instagram was going to launch , a function very similar to that which will allow Instagram users to share small video fragments in a single story, in addition to editing it, adding music and adjusting the speed in each video clip.
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Their findings also let us know that Instagram is testing a feature for the accounts you follow on the platform to make them much easier to manage. But her findings do not only refer to Instagram, since Jane Manchun Wong also informed us that Facebook is about to in her posts, just as it has happened on Instagram.
Facebook is working to hide like accounts, too!
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— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane)
And of course, although the vast majority of Wong’s discoveries have become a reality on the different platforms, some have changed their course a bit, such as Facebook’s measure of , which despite the fact that Mark has wanted to prioritize ephemeral content on the platform, they have not yet become the main source of news for their users, at least not yet. But what is certain is that any function that Wong discovers will be of great interest to the digital world.
Facebook is testing to turn News Feed into Story Feed
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane)
Who is Jane Manchun Wong
What you may not know is that Jane Manchun Wong is a technology blogger, researcher and of course application hacker and who was born in Hong Kong and of course, her fame is due to the fact that she has managed to give great previews and previews of new app functions and before their launch.
Your key is use reverse engineering in extremely popular apps to anticipate changes that are still in test mode. In addition to writing on her personal blog about her findings, she also shares screenshots on Twitter.
Her great passion for finding new features has made her a figure to watch, not only for users hoping to keep up, but for tech giants eagerly seeking to learn the secrets of their rivals so as not to be left behind, a popularity that the has led to having more than 50,000 followersincluding Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, and Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, head of hardware initiatives at Facebook.
OMG @mosseri followed me 😱
*wears hoodie and hides in the shrub*
Amazing work on improving wellbeing btw! 👍 pic.twitter.com/hcdTp4fM9p
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 9, 2019
The incredible thing is that, despite his great skills to analyze each new line of code of the most important applications on the planet, she receives no financial benefits for sharing her findings with humanity.
“I do it mainly for personal fun.”, Wong assured . “If I see the feature, I check to see if there are any security vulnerabilities, and if not, I tweet it.”
Wong taught herself to code by reading books and online guides, a hobby she picked up from her father, though she can earn some money every time she reports a security vulnerability. Currently, Wong is studying Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States and we are sure that we will continue to hear for a long time.
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