Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by AndrewKemendo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:35AM (#12802943)

With only 100k users they would generate approximately 9BN images per month (30FPS min, 10sec Snaps, average 10 snaps per day).

With 1M users of spectacles (.6% of their current MAU), that's potentially 90BN images per month and over a trillion per year. In the same dataset. Machine vision wet dream.

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by icelancer on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:59AM (#12803023)

There is no way the average user is shooting full 10s snaps 10x day. I use Snapchat regularly and that describes the top eschelon of users, which might be Spectacles users, but probably not all of them. I believe that is a vast overestimate.

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by AndrewKemendo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:28AM (#12803112)

As with most statistics it's likely normally distributed. I know teens send/receive in the hundreds per day - mind boggling really - and the celeb accounts post dozens daily. Even back in 2013 the numbers were staggering.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-snaps-snapchat-users...

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by loeber on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:13AM (#12803561)

Nitpick: I would strongly expect that the number of snaps sent/received per day is exponentially distributed over the space of users, not normally.

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