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Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#112Social media networks are like night clubs. Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook. Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do? Twitter is more like a massive dance hall filled with people shouting at…
Meanwhile, we all still have email, phones, snail mail and texting.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#11330something 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…
Why are we content to let the pictures and videos we create disappear though?
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#114Social media networks are like night clubs. Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook. Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do? Twitter is more like a massive dance hall filled with people shouting at…
Meanwhile, we all still have email, phones, snail mail and texting.
XMPP died though, and Matrix hasn't yet replaced it as it should, which is a problem.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#115Earlier 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.
They are different kinds of confusing. Twitter is fundamentally confusing (for all the reasons mentioned - @'s, reply, RT, etc..) Snapshot's confusing part is only in the strange UI decisions of the app itself. Those I feel they could easily remedy.
This exactly.
While I think Twitter could improve their UI by leaps and bounds, Snapchat's UI is just incomprehensible. However I'm a strong believer in it being 100% intentional at this point.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#116My 77 year old father forced himself to learn Twitter. Why? Financial news. My journalist friends live on Twitter. Why? Breaking political news. People I follow in national security circles... on twitter. After a certain number (age or users) its not about quantity but quality.
I've found Twitter has become my primary news source over the past couplefew years.
Right after Google shut down Reader for me. Twitter remains the best source of news + programming + local + academic content for me. Although on the whole I'm a little burned out on 'content' in general.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#117Social media networks are like night clubs. Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook. Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do? Twitter is more like a massive dance hall filled with people shouting at…
Many things are ephemeral, so what? Motorola was the most popular phone, then Nokia, Blackberry, iPhone and now Android. In the social media game, it is important for businesses to understand the movements of popularity.
Android is an OS, not a phone.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's another thing I don't understand--how is "automatically deleting" a feature? Why would I care if the recipient eventually deletes something I send them? I've literally never given any thought to what people do with E-mails I sent them, since it doesn't affect me at all. They can print it and hang it on their wall or take a screenshot of it and use it as their desktop background for all I care.
Flip it and look at it from the other side. Your inbox filling up with emails and attachments creates cognitive load; you have to decide what to do with all of them eventually. When you're consuming stories/snaps you see it, and it's gone. No overhead.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> iPhone and now Android Huh?
Android has approximately 85% of worldwide market. I think his statement is justified.
And yet the Play Store generates way less money than the App Store. It's ridiculous how lopsided the difference is actually. I mean, does that 15% really have more spendable money than the other 85%? Something else has to account for these results.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
> iPhone and now Android Huh?
Android has approximately 85% of worldwide market. I think his statement is justified.
While Android is a smartphone OS, it is questionable whether android devices are being used as smartphones by majority of the users who have android devices.