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Also, Snapchat is simply more fun. Twitter is dull in comparison.

• mschuster91 10y ago
  Snapchat is slower than a snail, it's UI is a mess without any kind of user manual, it eats battery like nothing else (because it ALWAYS keeps the camera on)... Maybe I'm just too old to "enjoy" this.
  • pessimizer 10y ago
    To be fair, the twitter web UI is also awful and slow.
    • byuu 10y ago
      God yes. There's something so surreal about it taking 5500ms to load 605KiB worth of content over 87 requests to display a screen of ten 140-character tweets. And their direct message section ... almost completely unusable. I've had it run so slowly that I could type out a sentence, stop, and watch it type out one character per second of the sentence I had typed. Unfortunately this has just become the new norm on the web, so there's no longer any pressure on sites to optimize for speed/performance.
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  • ablation 10y ago
    Eh. Maybe. I'm pretty dessiccated and I can see the appeal. After only a few minutes of using it, you can see why it appeals to the youth of today. There's something just intuitive about it, and the ephemeral nature of the format is mildly addictive.
  • ferentchak 10y ago
    The lack of a manual and secret feeling things you can do on Snapchat are part of the appeal. Most people learn how to do them from others and snapchat is often used while you are with some friends in contrast to FB or Twitter which are more used solo. You learn fun things by asking each other or seeing people do them. It's counter intuitive but the squirreliness of the interface is one of it's selling points