It also took me a while to 'get' it. I sort of think I do now and wrote down what makes Snapchat different: http://piks.nl/wordpress/snapchat/
Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#72I feel like I've been using it wrong after reading these comments. It's always been one huge attempt to make my friends laugh. We'll take embarrassing/stupid photos with the goofy filters and face swaps for a cheap laugh, knowing it'll be gone in 15 seconds or whatever. I'm not really using it to keep up on their lives or anything like that. and I'm not sure they are either.
Nothing wrong with that.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thirty something here. The stories aren't spam since they don't trigger notifications and you have to intentionally click on them to watch. When i'm not feeling social I ignore snapchat, when i am, i know i can check in and see what my friends are doing.
Why don't you ask them if you want to know what they are doing? I still don't get it.
One word: friction.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#7430something here - It took me a while to "get" Snapchat, but in my opinion there is no better way to keep up with friends and family digitally than via Snapchat Stories. You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean. Posting more than once or twice a day to Instagram/Facebook seems excessive, Twitter is a bit m…
For all the talk of Snapchat being confusing, I think that Twitter is more confusing and hostile to new users than is Snapchat. And I'm also in my 30s. I've had a Twitter account for like eight years now and I'm still not sure how to have a conversation with someone. And trying to read a conversation with many replies confounds me every time.
I still don't understand the draw of either of them, but obviously they're wildly popular for some reason, so bully for them. If I want to start a conversation with someone I call them up or E-mail them. I don't need to download some mobile app or to log in to some 3rd party service to do either of these. You can even send pictures through E-mail and delete them in 24 hours if you want.
How in the world did humanity keep in touch with their family before Snapchat?
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thirty something here. The stories aren't spam since they don't trigger notifications and you have to intentionally click on them to watch. When i'm not feeling social I ignore snapchat, when i am, i know i can check in and see what my friends are doing.
Why don't you ask them if you want to know what they are doing? I still don't get it.
pictures and videos are more expressive than words
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#76This metric is not quite accurate, but Google Trends [1] gives a decent overview of how Twitter has been on the decline for the past 3 years. Instagram has surpassed them in search traffic. Snapchat is more than a year away, but given how young they are is quite impressive. [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=snapchat#q=snapchat%...
Am I the only person who finds a huge amount of my Instagram (60%+) clicks and likes is really automated spam bots? I really feel like the service is particularly prone to it...not that Twitter and BookFace aren't also...
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#7730something here - It took me a while to "get" Snapchat, but in my opinion there is no better way to keep up with friends and family digitally than via Snapchat Stories. You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean. Posting more than once or twice a day to Instagram/Facebook seems excessive, Twitter is a bit m…
For all the talk of Snapchat being confusing, I think that Twitter is more confusing and hostile to new users than is Snapchat. And I'm also in my 30s. I've had a Twitter account for like eight years now and I'm still not sure how to have a conversation with someone. And trying to read a conversation with many replies confounds me every time.
Both are crap. For one, neither has a UI instruction area. I get that you want to create a UI that doesn't require instructions, but why does that prevent you from making an instruction regardless?
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
For all the talk of Snapchat being confusing, I think that Twitter is more confusing and hostile to new users than is Snapchat. And I'm also in my 30s. I've had a Twitter account for like eight years now and I'm still not sure how to have a conversation with someone. And trying to read a conversation with many replies confounds me every time.
I still don't understand the draw of either of them, but obviously they're wildly popular for some reason, so bully for them. If I want to start a conversation with someone I call them up or E-mail them. I don't need to download some mobile app or to log in to some 3rd party service to do either of these. You can even send pictures through E-mail and delete them in 24 hours if you want. How in the world did humanity…
Yes but the receiver of your email doesn't necessarily have to delete your email, which is the key distinction of what makes the service useful.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#79These different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to.
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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#80These different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to.
-- Sam Smith Web Developer and Aspiring Chef -- Large file transfers made easy. www.innorix.com/en/DS