Month: May 2019

Have you ever wished that the pics you sent to a person who was perhaps flirting with disappear? Surely you have and so have others as well. While this is something which isn’t possible in many other social media and messaging apps but Snapchat makes it possible. Perhaps that’s the reason for its popularity amongst teens as well. But there’s a lot more which makes the app so popular:

Why is snapchat so popular?

Nowadays, a person’s social status is strongly associated with their social media activity no matter where they work or study. This is even more true for students who have more free time and so they want to be in constant communication with others. So young people tend to be more conscious of how their friends and followers respond to their posts. Facebook has become less of a place to interact with friends and more of places …

Earlier this month, Snap, the company that operates Snapchat, posted the best quarterly results in its short history as a public company, sending its stock price soaring by 25% in after-hours trading. As of this writing, Snap’s stock price sits at $20.42, up considerably from the $13-14 range it was trading at before its Q4 results were announced (although still below its debut price of $24).

One subject that was only superficially discussed in its earnings report, however, is the redesign that was introduced to Snapchat last year for a subset of users that has been slowly increasing over time. The redesign is set to be rolled out to the entire Snapchat user base by the end of this quarter, and many users are not happy about it: more than one million people have signed a Change.org petition to revert the redesign and halt its continued deployment to users.

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