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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by adrianratnapala »

ChazDazzle wrote: post #55
stormbeta wrote: post #44

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>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. This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam. I'm 28, nobody I know uses snapchat/instagram/whatever so I haven't actually used it. If it's something I actu…

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.

Ahh, so maybe the appeal is its non-spamness? In that it doesn't clog up any kind of inbox?

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by adrianratnapala »

ChazDazzle wrote: post #75
brianwawok wrote: post #69

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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

I didn't understand that statement, could you perhaps draw an explanatory diagram for me?

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by zepto »

c_c_c wrote: post #110
a13n wrote: post #106

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> iPhone and now Android Huh?

Android has approximately 85% of worldwide market. I think his statement is justified.

Most of those phones are at the extreme low end and aren't used as smartphones the way iPhones are

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by kerbs »

ohstopitu wrote: post #127
ryanSrich wrote: post #115

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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.

Just out or curiosity, what part of snapchat's UI did you find confusing?

Mostly the navigational system is a mess - and feels of duct taped features without ever a desire to go in and clean it up.

Some points from just using it now:

- The strange lower left/lower right hamburger slide out menu things with odd icons. Right one leads to news, left one leads to snaps.

- When you go to the lower, right hamburger thingy - to go "back" there is a camera (not a back chevron/arrow) at the top left. Go experience it - it is weird.

- You can swipe down from the main camera view to get your profile. Took my 31 year old ass a year to discover that.

- The view snap vs. message view is just... no. I know what it does and I still input wrong.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by themagician »

sharkweek wrote: post #15

30something 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…

There is nothing to "get". It's all the same. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. People want a free way to broadcast to their friends. Someone invents a service that does that. Slowly ads take over. Now the stream needs to be "curated". It's no longer a timeline. It's no longer sensible. Now you can no longer reliably broadcast to your friends. People search for a new service that did what the old service used to do. They don't even realize that's what they are doing, but that's what they are doing. I've done this myself now what, a half dozen times? Every 2 years you have to do it again.

It's the same damn model. It's all the same thing. Sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Does no one see this?

Snapchat will rule until he ads take over. Your stories will slowly be interrupted by ads. Then your stories will fall out of time sync and you'll only get some updates or a "Featured Updates" or some other features that's really just a way to prioritize and guarantee ad delivery. And while this is happening someone will put out something new, that essentially does what Snapchat originally did in a slightly different format. Maybe square instead of portrait or GIF or Live Photo or whatever. But it's all the same thing. This game will continue forever.

All people want is a way to broadcast into a stream of content, and view other people's content in a timeline. That's it. It works for a while until you get too big. Then you can't pay for it and you have to start inject ads and resorting the timeline until it's no longer a timeline or it's a timeline full of all this stuff no one ever wanted or asked for.

When I was 15 I'd get home from school and run to my computer to check my favorite message board. I'd hit "New Posts" and see all the content from my friends. Cool new video game discussion, new video card benchmarks, some photos someone uploaded, some rant. Honestly, nothing has really changed in 15 years except the format of the content has been continuously updated to be technically (and culturally) relevant. But a post is still a post.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by davidbwire »

rpgmaker wrote: post #119
c_c_c wrote: post #110

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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.

Android is more popular in emerging markets. In most of these markets cash or mobile money payments are common. Most banks locally charge a monthly fee to have your card enabled to do online payments which is a pain in itself. Oflate things have started to change as most retail giants have started offering branded prepaid cards for both online payments and loyalty points.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by trevor-e »

stormbeta wrote: post #105
ChazDazzle wrote: post #55

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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.

I'm still lost. Maybe I just have radically different friends than everyone else here, but if I really have some pressing need to know what they're doing on a given day, I just ask them. Nobody cares about the day-to-day minutia, and if it was interesting, stuff like FB or regular messages work just fine. Like most social media apps, this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting).

Not trying to be mean here, but I'm having quite the time watching you try to grok Snapchat. To me your argument reads like "why would I send someone a text message when I can call them?" when text messaging was first becoming popular.

When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what they're up to each day? Snapchat solves this in a fun way.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by pg_is_a_butt »

rpgmaker wrote: post #133
prawn wrote: post #51

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I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. 5 seconds here and there of eating breakfast, getting dressed for the day, running around, etc. Twitter and Instagram don't really cover that use case well at all. I use private photos/videos on Instagram to share those things with my family, but it's very clunky and wo…

> I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.

uh... why would they add you on snapchat, go into the app, click on stories and play your videos, all without being notified, if they didn't want to view them?

No... you aren't right. you are just too stupid to know you're wrong, lady.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by cik2e »

brianwawok wrote: post #69
ChazDazzle wrote: post #55

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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.

Thank you, Gilfoyle.

I'm with you though.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by kobayashi »

Well, you're right that the ad problem drives people away, but you're wrong in saying that they deliver the same information in a functionally different but essentially similar method.

I broadcast and ingest very different information on Snapchat than I ever did on facebook. The ephemeral nature of Snapchat, combined with the lack of public "likes" makes it a much more positive experience to post, and thus I in turn see more interesting posts from friends.

edit: you all are starting to use the downvote button like a bunch of redditors

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