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Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by Teeboo »

dhimes wrote: post #290
Teeboo wrote: post #288

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You don't see ads on Facebook? It must be the ad blocker. 70% of the real estate via browser is ad based. Those ads don't include promoted posts from pages you elected to follow. The majority of content on FB is promotional.

Holy crap! I had no idea.

What? Not sure what has inspired your sarcasm.

I and another poster are discussing the UX experience which differs between browser with ad-blocker and other versions.

Thy kind of sarcasm is not really meant for HN. Do you have an opinion of substance?

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by the_watcher »

billhendricksjr wrote: post #180
the_watcher wrote: post #40

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> Twitter is instantly public and indexed by google. According to Chris Sacca on Bill Simmons podcast, when Twitter gave Google access to the firehouse, 60% of the links on Twitter had never been seen by Google's crawler.

I was curious about this as well. I believe Google started indexing tweets in 2014. Twitter gave Google a slice of the data well before then. If this is correct, I'm curious if those unindexed URLs were Twitter.com URLs (tweets) or 3rd party URLs, meaning those pages were shared on Twitter before Google indexed them. Edit: grammar

I figured a huge driver of this were pic.twitter links, since there would be no way for Google's crawler to see all of those URLs without access to the firehose.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by astrowilliam »

Teeboo wrote: post #291
dhimes wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy crap! I had no idea.

What? Not sure what has inspired your sarcasm. I and another poster are discussing the UX experience which differs between browser with ad-blocker and other versions. Thy kind of sarcasm is not really meant for HN. Do you have an opinion of substance?

Maybe dhimes uses adblock and literally had no idea that there were ads on FB. I have been using ABP for about a year and never see ads on FB. I literally had no idea that 70% of the real estate is filled with ads either until you said something about it.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by Teeboo »

astrowilliam wrote: post #293
Teeboo wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Not sure what has inspired your sarcasm. I and another poster are discussing the UX experience which differs between browser with ad-blocker and other versions. Thy kind of sarcasm is not really meant for HN. Do you have an opinion of substance?

Maybe dhimes uses adblock and literally had no idea that there were ads on FB. I have been using ABP for about a year and never see ads on FB. I literally had no idea that 70% of the real estate is filled with ads either until you said something about it.

Then I apologise for the snark. I thought it was sarcasm.

Here is a look into FB without ad blocker

https://imgur.com/gallery/d10Cb

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by pmlnr »

alanwatts wrote: post #263
pmlnr wrote: post #206

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> If you aren't around to hear the latest gossip (Snapchat story), you will miss out. Who said gossips? "Stories" have and utterly different meaning to me. Journals stick around. Letters stick around. Notes stick around. They are important. We evolved to write, not just talk, and reading back who you have been 10 years ago, even if it's just a plain entry, can be surprisingly useful to maintain a healthy soul, especi…

Knowing that what you say will be private(ish) and not be kept on historical record (at least not in public -- I assume Snapchat saves everything) can lead one to be more open, honest, and up-front in their communication. Whereas writing something which will be kept on the public historical record for all to see forever leads to both conscious and subconscious self-censorship and can be misleading when trying to "rea…

Do you honestly believe snapchat actually deletes content? Please.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by dhimes »

astrowilliam wrote: post #293
Teeboo wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Not sure what has inspired your sarcasm. I and another poster are discussing the UX experience which differs between browser with ad-blocker and other versions. Thy kind of sarcasm is not really meant for HN. Do you have an opinion of substance?

Maybe dhimes uses adblock and literally had no idea that there were ads on FB. I have been using ABP for about a year and never see ads on FB. I literally had no idea that 70% of the real estate is filled with ads either until you said something about it.

You are correct.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by dhimes »

Teeboo wrote: post #294
astrowilliam wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe dhimes uses adblock and literally had no idea that there were ads on FB. I have been using ABP for about a year and never see ads on FB. I literally had no idea that 70% of the real estate is filled with ads either until you said something about it.

Then I apologise for the snark. I thought it was sarcasm. Here is a look into FB without ad blocker https://imgur.com/gallery/d10Cb

One thing I did learn early is to never "like" anything sponsored. You will be associated with it in your friends' news feeds until you die. Actually, it may not end there.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by Teeboo »

dhimes wrote: post #296
astrowilliam wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe dhimes uses adblock and literally had no idea that there were ads on FB. I have been using ABP for about a year and never see ads on FB. I literally had no idea that 70% of the real estate is filled with ads either until you said something about it.

You are correct.

Then yeh...HN is not really that kind of space.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by dhimes »

Teeboo wrote: post #298
dhimes wrote: post #296

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You are correct.

Then yeh...HN is not really that kind of space.

I don't understand this comment. Backing out of your apology? Perhaps you should have a gander at how long I've been here before you become HN cop.

Perhaps I misunderstand this comment. I use adblock on Facebook. I don't see all of the ads in your imgur pic. I seriously had no idea it was so advertisement-laden.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by pacnw »

Jach wrote: post #239
puranjay wrote: post #216

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Damn, that's a good point. I'll use this as my retort to anyone who says they don't want their content to disappear

And then they reveal they are in fact recording every moment of their lives with at least audio if not video too. Ideally also measuring the air to replicate smells later if desired. If such was cheap and easy, I'd do it 24/7. I hate that my brain's storage is so volatile, and I wish I remembered dead people better. But yeah GP is still a good point, my desire is a separate issue from not wanting one's efforts to 'go…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
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