I wonder how Snapchat's founder reacted to this news..
Introducing Poke for Mobile
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Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought it was proven that previous reports of "private messages" showing up on poeples' Timelines were false and were down to user confusion?
While that's true, the fact is that the data stays forever. If you copy the direct CDN url of a photo on Facebook and then "delete" it, you can keep returning to that URL to see if it is still active. I've one saved from 2009 that still loads, despite having being "deleted" for almost three years now.
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Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before starting a startup, you take into consideration the chance that a tech giant might implement your idea better, faster, and stronger than you. It's a risk that Snapchat took, and clearly it woke someone up. From Facebook's point of view, why pay money for an app which can be developed 12 days? The only reasons they would acquire Snapchat are for the team and the users. The users of Snapchat are likely to alread…
> why pay money for an app which can be developed 12 days It sort of shows. I installed the app just to play around with the backend of it, and it's fairly easy to get stuck in a loop with no back buttons. There's also bits of the app that don't make sense, like the differentiation between the different types of received "pokes".
I'm sure an update will be released in a week. Facebook likes to "move fast and break things".
Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile
#44"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app." Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your tim…
Facebook deletes poke data. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/22/your-facebook-pokes-are-sto...