{
  "id": 19728729,
  "title": "Whoop launched a social network where every user has a ‘verified heartbeat’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/whoop-launched-a-social-network-where-every-user-has-a-verified",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-12T23:43:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1032630/whoop-humans-social-network"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Whoop has introduced a new social platform called \"Humans\" that functions similarly to Instagram Stories but with fitness tracker data from other users' wearables. This new feature allows Whoop members to share their fitness metrics, activities, and achievements with other Whoop users, post photo and caption \"Moments,\" and engage with comments and reactions. Users can select which aspects of their fitness data to share on the platform, such as Recovery, Strain, Sleep, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), and resting heart rate. Any sensitive activities are not shared by default.\n\nThe CEO of Whoop, Will Ahmed, claims that the Humans platform is \"entirely human\" and stands out from other social media platforms that he says are filled with artificial intelligence, automated accounts, bots, and manufactured content. He describes it as \"the most verifiably human network ever launched,\" as each account represents a real person with a verified heartbeat.\n\nWhoop's existing Teams social feature will remain available, allowing users to share strain, recovery, and sleep data along with group leaderboards. In the app's Community tab, users can view Moments from people they follow, akin to scrolling through Stories on Instagram but with friends' fitness tracker data. By tapping on a user's Moments post, users can see a map with their running route and details such as pace and distance. The Community tab also displays cards for people in the user's \"community,\" showcasing their sleep, recovery, and strain scores.\n\nUsers have the option to choose which activities, achievements, and metrics they want to share on the Humans platform, with the ability to keep Moments posts private and a \"Stealth Mode\" for temporarily hiding health and performance data without altering sharing settings.",
  "summary": "Starting Thursday, Whoop members can share their data from its wearables on the app's new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and achievements 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,\" […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Whoop launches Whoop Humans, a free opt-in social network in its app that allows members at every tier to share health data with approved followers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/whoop-launches-whoop-humans-a-free-opt-in-social-network-in-its-app",
        "published": "2026-11-12T16:20:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}