This rogue hacker digs up unreleased features on Instagram, Facebook, and Spotify - and she often finds out about them before other employees at those companies do
Just this week, Wong revealed that Instagram was testing new advertising tools to let creators monetize IGTV videos. Hours later, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed it.
Wong correctly predicted that Instagram would roll out a feature to let users see which profiles they interacted with least. Instagram announced the feature 112 days later.
Instagram is testing to “group the accounts you follow to make them easier to manage”, such as:
“Least Interacted With” and “Most Shown in Feed” which are counted in the last 90 days pic.twitter.com/REykEoMqu5
Wong discovered an experimental Stories for Playlists feature in Spotify. Spotify began publicly testing the feature 155 days later.
Spotify is working on Stories for Playlists
One of the unreleased Stories features a Q&A with @thisissigrid
Check out a video of this unreleased Story in my new blog:https://t.co/OwVp6vRxmx
Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/0SVhCB5BGT
Wong revealed that Google Translate was testing a flashcards feature, which Google has yet to officially confirm.
Google Translate is working on Flashcards for Phrasebook pic.twitter.com/277BNsltql
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) December 20, 2019Wong was the first to report that Twitter was testing a "conversation tree" layout for tweet replies.
"Jane's work to discover what we're working on has become a fun part of our product development process. Her Tweets have given us immediate, early feedback on what we're building," a Twitter spokesperson said.
Twitter continues working on Conversation Tree
now with the ability to focus a specific tweet, even from a permalink pic.twitter.com/CVadSqbFDP
She revealed that Spotify was testing a "social listening" feature that would let multiple users control music together on different devices.
Of all the unannounced features, this was the one Wong said she most hoped would be rolled out widely.
"I find the feature very fun, but I still haven't heard anything about whether it's coming," she said.
Spotify is working on Social Listening, letting friends to control music together with their own devices
Scan Spotify Code or open link for it to begin
For example, I'm listening Spotify right now. Feel free to introduce me new music: https://t.co/f59D0sis7Y pic.twitter.com/nPOlcPwQdG
Wong's Twitter feed has become a resource for employees at the companies she posts about. One Instagram engineer even said Wong was more informative than the company's internal communications.
An Instagram spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
For real. Jane's twitter is a better source on projects going on across the company than internal comms.
— Colin Higgins (@colinahiggins) October 10, 2019
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