Starting Thursday, Whoop members will be able to share data from their wearable devices on the app’s new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and accomplishments visible to other Whoop wearers, post story-like “Moments” with photos and captions, and add comments and reactions on other members’ posts.
Whoop claims its platform is “entirely human,” unlike other social media platforms that are “saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and fabricated content.”
Will Ahmed, CEO of Whoop, says Humans is “the most verifiable human network ever launched. Each account represents a real person with a verified heartbeat.” Whoop says its existing Teams social feature will “remain available”, allowing people to share tension, recovery and sleep data as well as group leaderboards.
In the Community tab of the Whoop app, users can scroll through moments of people they follow, like tapping on your Stories feed on Instagram, but with your friends’ fitness tracking data. In one of Whoop’s examples, swiping up a user’s Moments post with a photo of their run displays a map with their route and details like their pace and distance. The Community tab also displays cards for people in your “community” with their sleep, recovery, and effort scores.
Whoop says users choose which activities, achievements, and metrics they want to share about humans, including recovery, effort, sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate. All activities marked as sensitive are not shared by default. There’s also an option to keep Moments posts private and a “Stealth Mode” to temporarily hide health and performance data without changing your sharing settings.
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