On Wednesday, the world watched as scared and confused teenagers huddled in the corners of classrooms while gunshots rang out at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The unnervingly intimate view of the tragic high school …
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Snap gives influencers analytics as everyone else rages about Snapchat’s redesign
As Snapchat users continue to sign online petitions and retweet desperate pleas for the company to walk back its redesign, the company is looking to make amends with one important group of users: influencers.
No, even Snapchat’s most popular accounts…
Snapchat takes us inside the Olympics like never before
The Olympics is a spectacle, a very expensive spectacle. NBC holds the exclusive TV rights very, very dearly, spending $963 million just for these Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The media giant already got that back in ad sales, but how’s the audien…
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Snap is starting the year off strong. Its quarterly earnings blew past expectations…
Snapchat just did something crazy. It beat expectations.
Snapchat has a reputation. Yes, for sexting, but also for its inability to impress investors. That narrative changed on Tuesday after Snap Inc. scored a massive beat on its quarterly earnings report, recapping revenue and user growth 2017.
To the sur…
Snapchat will no longer shame you with white borders around old photos
Snapchat is finally letting us share anything we want to Stories.
The app will no longer add an ugly white border around photos you share from your camera roll to your Story.
SEE ALSO: Snapchat update lets Stories spread via text, email, even F…
Unlucky sister faces our biggest fear when a roach lands on her mouth
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Prepare yourself. This Snap may be your worst nightmare.
Chloé (@clodeineee) posted a tweet of her sister’s Snapchat video with her singing and using one of their many filters, when a HUGE roach flew on her face. The three-second video was a horror movie in the making.
Goodbye world, please burn this footage and all of the evidence of the roach.
My sister was tryna make a Snapchat video and a fucking roach flew on her face I’m fucking dead lmaoooooo pic.twitter.com/YW1dTJypKA
— Chloé🌻 (@clodeineee) January 18, 2018 Read more…
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View More Unlucky sister faces our biggest fear when a roach lands on her mouthWhat is Snapchat, now Story sharing has stopped growing?
In a betrayal of loyalty signaling poor morale, a massive dump of Snapchat’s usage stats has leaked. The most worrisome is that the number of users posting Stories has shown zero growth, an even worse performance than Snapchat’s total user growth that was sluggish this year. It appears Instagram’s Stories clone has stopped Snapchat’s most monetizable feature dead in… Read More
Snap’s 2018 includes ‘Stories Everywhere’ — not just in Snapchat
Snapchat is focused on taking snaps beyond the app as it tries to fend off the rise of Facebook’s Stories knock-offs and Discover competitor, Watch. The latest Snapchat effort? A new initiative called “Stories Everywhere.”
SEE ALSO: Snapchat just did…
What the new Snapchat update gets right about social media
As a parent, I’m a member of more than a few Facebook Groups related to my children’s education. And damn, they can be irritating. You quickly learn that parents frequently disagree wildly on teaching styles, curriculum choices, and even specific ass…
View More What the new Snapchat update gets right about social mediaSnapchat just completely redesigned its app. Here’s why.
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Snap Inc. has bet its future on being the anti-Facebook.
On Wednesday, the company made its biggest move yet—a major redesign to its flagship app—to show just how different it is from the social network.
But the redesign simultaneously takes a major page from Facebook’s playbook—relying on algorithms to personalize what you see.
The redesign, rolled out slowly to users over the coming weeks, separates the app into two feeds and infuses each of them with algorithms. Snapchat is now embracing the black-box equations that it once shunned.
The move comes as Snapchat is struggling as a public company with nonexistent user growth and a disappointing ad business. Read more…
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Evan Spiegel defends algorithms, criticizes Facebook in a new op-ed ahead of Snapchat’s redesign
Algorithms and social media are bad, unless they’re good, according to Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.
Yes, quite confusing, but that’s exactly what the cofounder of the app Snapchat argues in his first-ever op-ed posted on Axios Wednesday. The piece dropped …