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Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
- bennettfeely 10y agoHonestly thought this happened a while ago.
- niftich 10y agoSnapchat has undoubtedly grown; it's really impressive. But much of Twitter's content you can consume without being logged-in. Is that accounted for at all?
- teej 10y agoTwitter reports Monthly Active Users as 310M [1] which, as far as I can tell[2], represents just logged-in users. I presume that Bloomberg would use the standard-ish term of "active users" to mean the same thing. Twitter also reports it has 1B monthly uniques "to sites with embedded Tweets"[1]. [1] - https://about.twitter.com/company https://about.twitter.com/company [2] - http://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-...
- pavedwalden 10y agoHmm. That's an interesting thought about how to skew 'engagement' stats. Maybe that's why I can't view Pinterest pages without that irritating "you must log in" sheet scrolling over the content.
- xeromal 10y agoYou can actually delete that and keep scrolling
- altonzheng 10y agoI had this realization a while ago, Snapchat is basically what Twitter tried to achieve, a realtime pulse on everything happening anywhere, democratic and spontaneous because of information constraints. The difference being that Twitter is plagued with bad actors (you can be mean when you're just typing), whereas Snapchat is much more engaging, friendly, and to put it in a term that everyone understands: fun! The sad thing is I think Twitter engineering is much more talented than Snapchat... cough
- alttab 10y agoUh. Twitter is instantly public and indexed by google. Snapchat content goes away. They have very, very different goals. That said, it's easily agreeable that Snapchat the app is a flaming pile of brogramming.
- nathancahill 10y agoI upvoted your comment before I read the last line. What does brogramming have to do with this?
- untog 10y agoMaybe that the app is garbage. I agree that it's garbage yet also somehow delight in the fact that it proves app purists (use Apple UI guidelines, slickness is paramount to user experience) utterly wrong about the criteria for a successful app.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNo one cares how well the Skinner box is written, just as long as the right levers can be pulled and buttons pressed.
- dasil003 10y agoI agree with your cynicism. I have no problem with snapchat per se, one of the most brilliant things about it is that it recreates the ephemerality the world has always known, which for some reason the internet pioneers got in their brain needed to be replaced by archivalism that defined the first 30 years of the public internet. It's actually quite brilliant to bring this sort of casual conversation to a social network, and it's obvious why it resonates with teenagers as it reflects the social nature that teenagers' lives have always had. My problem is just with the addictive nature of apps in general. Facebook is probably a worse violator than Snapchat, but in the end all popular apps by definition sort of have to do this. Call me a hypocrite since I've been obsessed with computers and tech my whole life, but something about this makes me so sad. I hope we can live in a future where we are not all glued to our phones all the time.
- pdq 10y agoThis metric is not quite accurate, but Google Trends [1] gives a decent overview of how Twitter has been on the decline for the past 3 years. Instagram has surpassed them in search traffic. Snapchat is more than a year away, but given how young they are is quite impressive. [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=snapchat#q=snapchat%2C%20twitter%2C%20instagram%2C%20reddit&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5 https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=snapchat#q=snapchat%...
- jtmarmon 10y agoHow exactly do you know it's not accurate? If you're saying that because of Google trends, keep in mind that Twitter is a website, Snapchat is not. Lots of people still google "Twitter" to get to the homepage. Pretty much no one would be googling snapchat...
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- rockdiesel 10y agoEDIT: March and April saw over 9,000,000 searches. On average, 5,000,000 people google 'snapchat' every single month. Source: Google Keyword Planner
- chad_oliver 10y agoBut that's exactly the point. Search volume isn't the same thing as usage.
- facepalm 10y agoHow does Instagram surpass Twitter in Search traffic - what can you even search on Instagram? I thought it is mostly pictures. Or are people just searching for porn on Instagram?
- kmnc 10y agoI would guess most searches for both platforms are of the (person) (Twitter/Instagram) format.
- sharkweek 10y ago30something 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 more of a firehose than a way to see what everyone is doing. It took me a bit to get used to the interface, but the goofiness of the entire service is so enjoyable, including all their filters and whatnot. I've noticed myself spending way more time on Snapchat than on other services as of late, even in my "old age for social media."
- nostromo 10y agoFor 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.
- Pxtl 10y agoI agree the threading in Twitter is a train wreck. I like Twitter because it's great for super-local things, but it definitely fails at conversations even beyond the length limit.
- ryandrake 10y agoI still don't understand the draw of either of them, but obviously they're wildly popular for some reason, so bully for them. If I want to start a conversation with someone I call them up or E-mail them. I don't need to download some mobile app or to log in to some 3rd party service to do either of these. You can even send pictures through E-mail and delete them in 24 hours if you want. How in the world did humanity keep in touch with their family before Snapchat?
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- enahs-sf 10y agoI'm excited to see when snapchat figures out a way to replicate the 'DJ Khaled' effect. I want to discover interesting people doing cool stuff and right now i'm not sure how i'd go about doing this on snapchat whereas Twitter won't stop recommending people to me.
- the_watcher 10y agoYea, this is something they really need to work on. It's pretty difficult to discover a public Snapchatter you'd want to follow
- galistoca 10y agoI think it's by design. They're already doing well without the discovery and the lack of discovery is probably one of the key reasons why people like it. Snapchat is more about keeping in touch with people they really care about than some DJ Khaled. In fact a lot of people who first started following DJ Khaled just to see what the hype is all about don't really care anymore, and probably increasingly so as more people start using Snapchat.
- _RPM 10y agoAll due respect to SnapChat, I'm glad people use it and enjoy. As for me, I had it before, it wasn't really my thing. I never had instagram either, so maybe there is some relation there. edit: spelling
- saganus 10y agoI guess I'm on a similar camp. For some reason the idea that I would be posting my day to day seems to me very "un-private" for a person like me that doesn't want to voluntarily broadcast my every waking second. I use Facebook and I post from time to time, but mostly re-shares of other interesting stuff and very very seldom something about myself. I even try to stay untagged as much as I can because I find very creepy the amount of info one can get for the purposes of fraud calls, kidnapping (I live in a country where this is a very real threat) or other malicious acts. In the end I'm aware that there's a limit on what I can do without going "more dark" (i.e. only Tor browsing via VPN from internet connections not in my house, using Qubes on a laptop bought over the counter, with cash, etc etc), but I hope that by using things like PasswordSafe with a YubiKey 2FA for my passwords (32+ random chars) and having the usual, uBlock HTTPSEverytwhere, DoNotTrack, PrivacyBadger, etc I can at least lower the attack surface. Like they say "I don't have to run faster than the lion, I only need to run faster than you". I just hope that all this really does make a difference, even if tiny, at least against your regular online-savvy asshole/criminal (I know that I'm really a sitting duck against a state actor)... otherwise it's just one big mental masturbation scheme.. :(
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- wavelattice 10y agoNo surprises here. Snapchat captures the use a common person wants. Twitter's really just good for tracking celebrities.
- Pxtl 10y agoIve found Twitter goes beyond celebrities. It's great for live events like conferences or debates or whatever, even ones that are too small for major media coverage. When something is happening, you get live journos and bloggers live tweeting the breaking news, and the surrounding discussion is good too.
- agumonkey 10y agoI track approximately zero celebs. I do track a lot of people in CS/Math fields. Kindof a live bookmark feed.
- niftich 10y agoThe point still stands, there are two kinds of Twitter users: 'VIPs' who attract followers, and 'consumers' who follow them.
- the_watcher 10y ago> Twitter's really just good for tracking celebrities. What? Twitter has become the dominant platform for breaking news. It's also got a decent number of niche communities (I'm pretty active in NBA Twitter, for example).
- sotojuan 10y agoI use Twitter to connect, meet, and talk to other devs. Maybe it's similar to "tracking celebrities" but it's been a boon to my career and learning (with moderate use, of course).
- rrggrr 10y agoMy 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.
- rhizome 10y agoI've found Twitter has become my primary news source over the past couplefew years.
- redcap 10y agoTwitter was amazing useful after the big earthquake/nuclear issues in 2011 (I live in Japan).
- free2rhyme214 10y agoThat and LINE
- redcap 10y agoFor me it was mainly twitter for news. Facebook was useful immediately after the quake to let family back home know that I was OK while the phone lines were still jammed. I also used it as a way to relay news in English to Facebook friends in Japan who can't read Japanese.
- trts 10y agoRight 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.
- rhizome 10y agoAll I can say is, follow reporters who handle topics you're interested in and it's like having your own personal news site. A messier, but more direct advance beyond RSS (which I also still use religously).
- Jyaif 10y agolate 20something here. Is it possible for me to "get" snapchat if none of my friends are using it? If so, how?
- licnep 10y agoYou need to have friends on it to really "get" it, but you can add celebrities, people in your address book, or get snapchat usernames from profiles on tinder/instagram/...
- lowmess 10y agoTwitter = realtime news/sports, one-to-many jokes/announcements or whatever Snapchat = catch up on friends & families days, one-to-one connection It's OK that they each have their purpose, and I wish both services's stated goals would embrace that. And maybe I use those services different than other people, but I just think it's strange that two wildly different services are competing for the same eyeballs in the same verticals. Obviously the shareholders disagree with me.
- chambo622 10y agoAt some level _every_ service is competing with every other for users' time. But at some point, such comparisons become meaningless.
- tedmiston 10y agoDoes anyone else wish there were an option to not auto play the next story (of User B) when you're watching the story of User A?
- kbd 10y agoAnyone else get an ad blocker message when you're not using one?
- edpichler 10y agoI really respect the Snapchat service, but the thing is that I don't like to create things that will disappear. If I want a thing to disappear I simply don't create it. I believe I am an exception, I see a lot of people that loves Snapchat because it erases things after a while. May I still don't have the problem Snapchat was created to solve.
- xux 10y ago> If I want a thing to disappear I simply don't create it. The point is that it mimics a natural conversation. Do you refuse to speak just because no one is recording you?
- thex10 10y agoAs someone who can relate to the parent post, I will admit that if no one is actively listening to me then I absolutely will not speak. But I'm on the quieter side of personalities and don't enjoy talking for the hell of it.
- robinson7d 10y agoBut there is someone listening on snapchat - the person on the other side still sees and hears it. The conversation analogy that xux made seems perfectly reasonable to me in that regard. However, it is (depending on the user, I suppose) not super "real-time" the way conversations are.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoBut your friends still see your snaps and remember them. The database just forgets them very easily.
- sotojuan 10y agoThat's now what that person meant. The way I look at it, Snapchat is like conversations—you don't remember most of them. Does that mean you never talk unless you have some way of knowing you will remember them forever? That's basically what Snapchat is for (unless it is important, then you screenshot!). With Snapchat you aren't "creating" anything, just having casual conversations.
- iamleppert 10y agoSocial Media are like TV Shows, and Facebook is like the HBO of Social Media. One day something else will come up and capture "young people's" attention and Snapchat will have a slow, painful MySpace-esque death. This is the price you pay when you don't have anything real to offer to the world, and instead trade on shear popularity alone.
- dmamills 10y agoI believe this is true to a degree. But I believe what differentiates this comparison of the shift from Myspace to Facebook, is that Snapchat embraces the concept of ephemeral sharing. Ephemeral sharing I believe will be a huge part of the future of social media as the younger generation becomes more aware of the effects of the permanence of the internet.
- toxican 10y agoI feel like I've been using it wrong after reading these comments. It's always been one huge attempt to make my friends laugh. We'll take embarrassing/stupid photos with the goofy filters and face swaps for a cheap laugh, knowing it'll be gone in 15 seconds or whatever. I'm not really using it to keep up on their lives or anything like that. and I'm not sure they are either.
- wodenokoto 10y agoNothing wrong with that.
- janvdberg 10y agoIt also took me a while to 'get' it. I sort of think I do now and wrote down what makes Snapchat different: http://piks.nl/wordpress/snapchat/ http://piks.nl/wordpress/snapchat/
- Sam_Smith 10y agoThese different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to. -- Sam Smith Web Developer and Aspiring Chef Large file transfers made easy. www.innorix.com/en/DS
- Sam_Smith 10y agoThese different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to. -- Sam Smith Web Developer and Aspiring Chef -- Large file transfers made easy. www.innorix.com/en/DS
- koalaman 10y agopretty cool for an app engine app. I wonder how big their ops team is.
- perseusprime11 10y agoCan someone tell me how do I get out of stories in Snapchat?
- orliesaurus 10y ago2 minutes of snapchat = 3% battery life on Android (Nexus 5) - I like the app and the idea but it kills my poor baby!
- asadlionpk 10y agoI suppose that is because it keeps the camera running even if you are at the stories or PM panel.
- dcw303 10y agoSocial 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 each other. If you stand close to your selected friends it can be fun, and if you get access to the mic on the main stage it can be awesome, but the usual experience is that it's filled with randos. Snapchat is like.. I don't know. I lost interest in nightclubs before I could get into Snapchat.
- pedalpete 10y agoMany 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.
- a13n 10y ago> iPhone and now Android Huh?
- c_c_c 10y agoAndroid has approximately 85% of worldwide market. I think his statement is justified.
- rpgmaker 10y agoAnd 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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- mazork 10y agoIf only they wouldn't be such *sses about Windows Phone maybe I would be able to keep up with my friends this way ...
- awqrre 10y agoNo desktop/web app either?
- marknutter 10y agoThe moment Snapchat clicked for me was when I was using the current events features and it was stitching together different short video clips from the campaign trail. These were raw, candid, and extremely fresh videos showing the candidates with their guard down. I felt like I was spying. It clicked again for me last week when a friend was casually flipping through her contacts "stories". The little glimpses of peoples lives was so intimate and meaningless at the same time. They're really onto something here.
- free2rhyme214 10y agoIt doesn't surprise me that more people prefer personal conversations than the news. What surprises me is that Snapchat was able to figure this out in their own wacky way. Kudos to them, but this certainly doesn't diminish the importance of Twitter. People that complain about Twitter so far haven't created a better solution.
- pedalpete 10y agoBy 'wacky way', I assume you mean disappearing convo's centered around photos. If so, I find it absolutely fascinating that Evan Spiegel was able to think of photos as a conversational medium in this manner, and more than just sexting.
- dylanz 10y agoI'm not a Snapchat user, but my girlfriend is. I watch her use Timehop and she laughs at old tweets she made... when she actually used Twitter. She then goes to Snapchat and watches other people's stories for the next hour while I catch up on news (HN, industry news, etc). I understand why Snapchat is popular, but I don't understand people who use it (sorry bae).
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- alive2007 10y agoIn other news, bananas have surpassed OS X in daily Caloric consumption. I knew Apple couldn't make it without Jobs. People conflate the purposes of various products under the umbrella term "social network", which makes the assumption that all social networks offer arbitrarily similar function. Simply not true. Snapchat offers ephemeral pictoral content with humorous ad-hoc additive filters. This tailors the product for those that desire ephemeral pictoral content with humorous ad-hoc additive filters. Apparently, a bunch of young kids. Twitter offers what is now known through the shorthand, "microblogging". This tailors the product for people who like "microblogging". Apparently, a bunch of people, the median age being higher than Snapchat's median age. Just because more people are spending time on Snapchat than on Twitter, does not mean that Snapchat is "taking away" from Twitter time. Perhaps different people are signing up for Snapchat that are not signed up for Twitter. Perhaps people that are spending X hours on Twitter are now spending Y hours on Snapchat without taking away from the X hours spent on Twitter. Elapsed eyeball time, and, ergo, ad revenue, are still the same. This isn't a zero-sum game. Twitter shouldn't break a sweat because Snapchat is getting more popular. Facebook shouldn't break a sweat because Twitter's no-character limit policy may increase user base. Perhaps the zero-sum approach to competition makes sense in certain fields, like when products are similar substitutes of each other; like two different kinds of general-purpose glue offered on the market. Or when market capitalization of a certain kind of product is fixed : it's been widely assumed that the average American's entertainment budget is relatively fixed, so in a philosophical sense, if one popular band didn't exist, another popular band would be more popular. But when it comes to products like "social networks"? With vast design philosophies and product focus and varying demographics? It's very reductionist to publish a headlines like this and assume it makes any sort of meaningful conclusions. As with any sufficiently popular business, this stuff is capital-C complicated and you can't explain relative differences in success using singular metrics like this.
- WWLink 10y agoI think I almost had a seizure reading your post. So many buzzwords lol
- kobayashi 10y agoWell, 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
- themagician 10y agoBecause you got into Facebook so late. People who are 20 are doing on Snapchat today what I did on Facebook when I was 20: multicasting. I either want to send a message to everyone or to a group. Sometimes in a personal message. I see almost no real difference in content. Snapchat might be a little racier in personal messages, but that happened on FB and Twitter as well. The ephemeral nature was built into Facebook and Twitter as well, to some extent, as the services weren't searchable. You'd post something and after a few more posts it was essentially "gone from view". Outside of marketers and people trying to "build an audience" I really see almost no difference at all in the way people use it. It's just a matter of how old you are and what service was popular at the time. Don't believe me? Do this as an experiment: Create a new account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Follow only 30 real people. No more, no less. 30 people you know. No marketers or self promoters or any of that nonsense. Just follow 30 real people, maybe a celeb or two the way a 20 year old might. Look at the content. It's all the same stuff. Having fun here, doing this with person X, Y, and Z. Cute dog photo. Inspiring quote. Maybe a DM with some nudes. There is nothing to "get" other than to understand that as you become older the thing that's changing is you. The biggest difference between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat is how old you and your friends were when you started using it, and what what point in the lifecycle of the service you were at.
- kobayashi 10y agoThose are thought-provoking points. I'm trying to remember how I originally used facebook back in high school, and before the News Feed and Like eras we definitely used facebook much differently. Still, I think people use Snapchat to share more inconsequential parts of their lives than we ever did on facebook, but maybe that anecdotal experience isn't true, or maybe the difference is so minute that it doesn't even matter. You've definitely changed my view of these social media platforms. I'm not sure that I absolutely agree with you, but I'm not sure where I disagree, either. Great points, all around.
- advertising 10y agoI downloaded snapchat a few years ago. Didn't know enough people on it and uninstalled after a month or two. About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that. You'll post one perfect, curated photo to insta of your day, but you'll snap the random guy in the street, a funny sign in another language or just some bullshit you're up to. Instagram feels a bit past its prime these days. I follow more commercial accounts on insta than I do on snapchat. Snapchat it's like 40 close friends and fam. People who have my phone number. Plus if you want to meet girls (sub 30 I should add) snap is the easiest way to connect lately.
- advertising 10y agoThe worst thing about snapchat when traveling however, is battery life. That app literally sucks the juice out of your phone in 10 minutes. Too much gps trying to load all their filters or something I don't know. I have to turn off cellular data when roaming or my phone will dead 20 minutes after I left the house.
- Pengwin 10y agoI always have GPS disabled, unless its more to do with where i live, GPS features of snapchat aren't worth using. The infuriating thing i notice though is that since the android update was released where you no longer hold to view a picture or video, your phone will never go to sleep if snapchat is in the foreground.
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- pmlnr 10y ago> About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that. Why not taking notes and pull it together in a blog post? Journals are useful for everyone, especially if it's about remote locations and insider tips.
- mickrussom 10y agoI think headline means SnapChat crashes more than the twitter app or anything else.
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- thetmkay 10y agoI've come to recently replace Twitter with Snapchat, having replaced Facebook Timeline with Twitter. The process is definitely cyclical, but there is at least one new emphasis that's changed: Content is treated as low-value, which makes it low-pressure. Mainly because: 1. it has a short life span (it expires in 24 hours) 2. the lack of per-item ratings (e.g. likes or favourites) 3. it is always packaged non-individually (i.e. as a bundled "Story") 4. pictures are not dressed up (ie not "Instagram photos") and videos are short 5. simple UI promotes content creation as central and valued over content judging/consumption Add to that it offers the best visual blogging UI (and specifically vlogging). Whereas with Facebook and Twitter every new post would bring thoughts like "is this good enough? Will I regret this post down the line? Will people like it?", Snapchat promotes the "just do it" attitude. Is this interesting right now? I expect my personal use of Snapchat will wane as it did with the other platforms. When something becomes too big it becomes too public, and brings too much pressure to be idyllic. Right now Snapchat feels closed and personal.
- kriro 10y agoI think Snapchat is too "dangerous" for me. Too much gamification, fueling FOMO etc. This story was fairly scary (imo): https://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens https://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-t...
- erikb 10y agoPeople here only think about how they use Twitter and Snapchat. My first thought would be: Snapchat has more girls with less clothes. It is not the content we are looking for, but that's what draws a lot of young guys and girls there. Twitter offers content. That is nice, but not so interesting to the amount of people that would be willing to use new apps. That you can show your daily life to your friends and family is also nice, certainly may be the tip to lead to higher traffic than twitter, but it's probably not the majority usecase.
- Grue3 10y agoThe thing about Snapchat is that it has no web footprint. It's impossible to judge how big it actually is. They can report whatever numbers they want. Remember how Google+ claimed to have more active users than Twitter? Yeah.
- fauigerzigerk 10y agoIt's amazing how misguided this article is. Twitter is a publishing platform. You go there for (links to) news, blog posts, commentary on particular subjects (some of them very niche), notifications of events or live reporting of something happening in public. Why does every form of communication have to fit the mold of "keeping in touch with friends and family" and match the user numbers that these services inherently deliver? I'm so fed up with the dominance of "keeping up with friends and family". I have better things to do than to "keep up" with pointless brain farts and daily routines of people I know. And why is everything measured by what kids or teenagers do? So much so that people on here pride themselves of "getting" snapchat in spite of their advanced age (>30) as if that was difficult or any sort of achievement. The salient feature of teenagers is that most of them haven't yet found anything that they are deeply interested in. Most of them don't have very complicated social relationships yet as they don't have a past with anyone. They are not held accountable for anything, and they don't have to make well informed or consequential decisions yet. In other words, their demand for information and communication is hard to predict but can often be met by something totally inadequate for others. So it's not about "getting it", it's about finding it unfit for purpose. There's a pattern in the demise of Google Reader and Twitter's current problems. It seems to be difficult for internet behemoths to justify investment into the significant but limited niche of people with advanced information needs. I wish Twitter had the courage to try to increase usage, utility and depth instead of growing user numbers. And no, it's not an inherent problem with capitalism. There are many successful, publicly traded companies that do something useful, make a profit, and don't grow much.
- ElijahLynn 10y agoAnother 30something here: Just spent the past month forcing myself to understand Snapchat and I finally get it now. Took a bit, especially since the whole experience is heavily gamified. I swear the developers are huge video game junkies! The big takeaway is that Snapchat is just much more personal and real than the text based social networks. For those interested in trying it out I recommend. Mark Suster => https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster (Venture Capitalist, tech/leadership 'Snapstorms') Justin Kan => https://www.snapchat.com/add/justinkan https://www.snapchat.com/add/justinkan (creator Justin TV, now Twitch, very open in business/tech) Here is my snapchat as well https://www.snapchat.com/add/mrelijahlynn https://www.snapchat.com/add/mrelijahlynn edit: This article got me to try Snapchat, I was a big fan of Justin TV and streamed a ton of content, including live broadcasts from the Ron Paul Blimp. http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat Also, this article can get you up to speed on the very different UX => https://bothsidesofthetable.com/snapchat-101-for-vcs-and-old-folks-47fbfcb29f78 https://bothsidesofthetable.com/snapchat-101-for-vcs-and-old...
- HemanHeartYou 10y agoGood goy
- karmakaze 10y agoSnapchat on Android killed my Nexus 5. Phone got exceedingly hot, even when not in use. By next day display also stopped working. Do I dare try again on Nexus 6P?