Yusuf Omar 🎥📱’s Tweets

, empowering mobile journalists. #MOJO since 2010

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Yusuf Omar 🎥📱’s Tweets

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May 11

Big news! Please share 🙏🏾🙌🏾❤️

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Seen

· May 11

Announcing our name change

: Seen is creating a more empathetic and understanding world, by helping people share their human experiences.

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Jul 21

Climate change is as real as all the #Heatwave casualties. Stay safe out there! #AR

@SnapAR

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Jul 21

⚡️🪫The loadshedding story South Africa’s politicians need to see 👀 🇿🇦

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Seen

· Jul 21

South Africa’s power cuts could kill her. 19-year-old Aa'ishah, whose immune system attacks her organs, was diagnosed with SLE Lupus at only nine years old. #SeenAfrica #IAmSeen #Loadshedding #SouthAfrica #Lupus #KidneyFailure #Dialysis #Eskom

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We are looking for an AR developer to work full time remotely

, The developer should know how to deal with 3d models, shaders and JavaScript. if you feel that you have the qualifications, send me a DM.

#ios #100DaysOfCode #AugmentedReality #ar

Jul 19

Using our selfie lenses to curate youth voices for #MandelaDay

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Seen

· Jul 18

18 July is Mandela Day. In celebration of his birthday, we asked South African children what Nelson Mandela means to them. They remind us of Mandela’s monumental legacy of kindness, selflessness and freedom. What does Mandela mean to you? #SeenAfrica #IAmSeen #MandelaDay2022

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Jul 16

Met such amazing people at

World. Can’t wait for the next one

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· Jul 16

Was excited to brainstorm with @YusufOmarSA last week before he jumped on a

to Australia. Looking forward to future collaboration with @weareseen_!

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shared some incredible tips on how to tell a story in 2022: leveraging mix-medium to connect with a modern audience, anywhere, anytime. 🤳 He uses a seven-step process on how to be seen (

) and get your voice AMPLIFIED 📢 3/5

Baby Fairy is like a really good sex ed teacher, helping demystify the journey of pregnancy.

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· Jul 13

Introducing Baby Fairy. @SnapAR #Lensathon

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🫃🏾Introducing Baby Fairy.

@SnapAR

#Lensathon

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Here is a demo of my lens for the lensathon 🤩

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Learning to find our “mojo” - mobile journalist. Taking tons of notes from this session from

@weareseen

Thank you! #DevexEvent

2) Stick to one orientation when filming with a phone & and consider your own physical orientation when watching. Are you leaning back or fwd? With Netflix and YouTube, you're leaning back, so go horizontal. With Twitter and Instagram, you're leaning forward so go vertical.

Mobile storytelling tips for global development & humanitarian orgs, from

at #DevexWorld: 1) You have three seconds to capture your viewer’s attention. Make it striking — i.e. no logo, no intros.

, co-founder of

, gives us a crash course in mobile storytelling for a more empathetic and understanding future: "We've got a Ferrari in our pocket, and we're driving it in first gear."

Ready to hear more from

about digital storytelling at #DevexWorld

Empower people to tell their own stories! —

at #DevexWorld. Check out how

is helping people share their stories 👏

Lots of sessions at #DevexWorld around scaling local #storytelling and HOW to share authentic stories from the individuals living them. Many more toolkits, platforms, and processes for this than there used to be. Thx

@folktale_io

@smaks

and more #shiftingpower

Such an inspiring speaker and

really emphasized training others on telling their story on social media including video! #devexworld #devexevent

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Samantha Ducey

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· Jul 12

.@YusufOmarSA, co-founder of @weareseen_, talks the future of solutions-based storytelling & champions the unlimited potential of leveraging digital technology & social media to tell authentic stories. @devex #DevexWorld

Jul 12

Would love to bring the

@sesamestreet

folks to life in AR!

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Sherrie Westin

@SherrieWestin

· Jul 12

Loved meeting @YusufOmarSA and his talk @Devex on giving people the tools for storytelling and inspiring others through #selfiejournslism, @weareseen_

, co-founder of

, talks the future of solutions-based storytelling & champions the unlimited potential of leveraging digital technology & social media to tell authentic stories.

One of my favourite #DevexWorld sessions so far

on the future of solution based storytelling.

Wow! Powerful to hear ⁦

⁩ describe how we can “flip it” and hear directly from communities by giving them camera tools. #devexworld

Using filters via Snapchat can be a powerful tool for telling the stories of rape survivors for example. #socialmedia

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Devex

· Jul 12

LIVE: Join this discussion with @YusufOmarSA, co-founder of @weareseen_. Watch live at DevexWorld.com. #DevexWorld #DevexEvent

Yusuf Omar on LinkedIn: #journalism #mojo #augmentedreality

Jul 11

You can spend your entire life trying to fix an old company. Or you can build a new one! 🗣I’ve been invited to speak all over the world about our new type of media company called Seen 💡 People often worry and say ‘but why are you giving away all thes…

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You can spend your entire life trying to fix an old company. Or you can build a new one!

I’ve been invited to speak all over the world about our new...

Most people don’t think...

Jul 7

🎨The Trash Artist 🗑Most people don’t think about trash because it’s buried far away. 👆🏻This artist puts our waste in our face so we can’t ignore it!

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Yusuf Omar on LinkedIn:

The Trash Artist

The Trash Artist

Most people don’t think about trash because it’s buried far away.

This artist puts our waste in our face so we can’t ignore it...

A barracuda bar and a bullet-proof backpack are things you wouldn't expect in a classroom. However, this is the reality for Kelsey's first-grade class. #SeenStories #SchoolShootings #UvaldeShooting #MassShooting #GunViolenceAwareness #SchoolSafety #GunViolence #EndGunViolence

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🇺🇸 Washington DC friends! I’m in town 11-14 July 👋🏾 I’ll be speaking at

#DevexWorld .

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Jul 1

We’re hiring for our augmented reality team. Come work with the brilliant

@boona11

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Ibrahim Boona

@boona11

· Jul 1

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Head of Camera department at @weareseen_ ! very excited for this new journey

@YusufOmarSA

Jul 1

Our new augmented reality lead at

is a genius who is helping to improve lives with AR

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Ibrahim Boona

@boona11

· Jun 30

I have successfully build an Artificial Intelligence (deep learning) model to detect brain tumor type. I used Tensorflow to train the model and @SnapAR lens studio to implement it. Next step: improve the accuracy and make AR experience with it, then submit the lens to Lensathon

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Jun 28

We publish over 1,000 stories a year and the most common question is how we ensure the accuracy of stories filmed by citizens. We’ve got tools and tech, but it’s all driven by amazing journalists like

@ImTumii

and the

#SeenStories #IAmSeen #RoeVWAde #RoeVWadeOverturned #Abortion #AbortionRights #Feminism #SurgicalAbortion #Pregnancy #MyBodyMyRight

team!

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@ImTumii

· Jun 28

Last week Saturday I published my 50th story at @weareseen_ & my twin sister just surprised me with this

1/2 “I’ve had an abortion,” says Rita, a former sex worker.

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1/2 She had an abortion in Illinois, a state allowing termination #SeenStories #IAmSeen #RoeVWAde #RoeVWadeOverturned #Abortion #AbortionRights #Feminism #Pregnancy #MyBodyMyRight

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Speaking in DC July 12!

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Devex

· Jun 22

Register for our biggest event this year and hear from @YusufOmarSA, co-founder of @weareseen_, on how mobile and the metaverse are the future of solutions-based storytelling. Register here

#DevexWorld #DevexEvent

"The camera really will be how you do everything. How you pay for things, how you add friends - we’re going to move away from the keyboard and that’s a great thing”

How one video publisher is preparing for the rise of augmented reality

on the future of #AugmentedReality and the possibilities for journalism

journalism.co.uk

Formerly Hashtag our Stories, video publisher SEEN has garnered a huge fanbase on social media. Co-founder Yusuf Omar warns that newsrooms need to be ready for when audiences swap their smartphones...

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Jun 17

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