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Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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As someone who never really "got" Snapchat, I found this interesting: >Snapchat has done an impressive job soaking up attention by covering three different use cases with a single app: private messaging, social media Stories broadcasting, and professional Discover content. These work together to give people something to do even if their friends don’t post interesting stories, they’re waiting for people to reply, or t…

I thought it was for sexting..?

Everything is for sexting.

Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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Heaviest app on my phone ever. Yea I don't have the latest Nexus smartphone, but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.

Snapchat is terrible on Android. I'm surprised it got so popular (when FB had a real heavy Android app I feel like a lot of people were using the web interface instead).

Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better a company that generates revenue than one that uses all it's money on growth and has billions $ negative. I hate this idea of a growth rate being "too slow", all it does is encourage monopolisation which is bad for people. Edit: spelling

I'd honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much, as I've often found myself agreeing with this refrain. To pre-answer the common rebuttal I get, that VCs are taking moonshots at the chance of a VERY HIGH return; I'd ask why not look at VC investments in the sense of a more traditional portfolio, where you'd have your growth stocks, your value stocks, etc. If I could find a vehicle that reliably…

>id honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much

Because it confuses revenues and earnings? It defends Snap chat for not having "negative billions" when, in fact, it is has negative billions.

Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd put Imgur and Reddit in tier 1

Do people just browse Imgur or what is there to do? I've never gone to the site other than to upload or through a link (mostly from Reddit).

Yes, it has it's own discussion/community separate from Reddit. It mainly serves as a source/aggregate for Reddit image content.

Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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Heaviest app on my phone ever. Yea I don't have the latest Nexus smartphone, but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.

> but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be. Nothing ever is, except for NASA's shuttle control systems.

Obviously, but no need to be pedantic, you know what I meant by that.

Re: Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016

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post #52
post #39

Heaviest app on my phone ever. Yea I don't have the latest Nexus smartphone, but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.

Snapchat is terrible on Android. I'm surprised it got so popular (when FB had a real heavy Android app I feel like a lot of people were using the web interface instead).

Yeah, and honestly I can't understand the decision of opening the camera in transparency right on the first screen of the app, adding the camera opening time to the rest.

And that feature only looks kind of bragging to me: "hey, look at how cool we are", and I am sure some users will not even notice it.

Anyway, don't they test it and see how slow it ?

Or are they one of those company only interested in iOS and only developing for Android marginally?

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