Azar is Chatroulette back from the dead, and it's going viral under your nose

You remember Chatroulette, right?

Azar is a mobile app attempting to resurrect that old-school livechat experience for the new generation — and it's going viral under our noses.

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Within three years of Azar's launch, the Korean company behind it, Hyperconnect, claims the app has hit 100 million downloads in over 200 countries, and made 13 billion matches between users. Traffic grows threefold each year, the firm says.

The premise is simple: Connect with new chat partners one-to-one, and swipe to make a new match if you don't like the current one.

Unlike Chatroulette, which did little outside of video and text chatting with random strangers, Azar allows you to add contacts you like so you can chat again, and brings in today's chat expressions like stickers and filters. Read more...

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