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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by ben_jones on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:54PM (#13555746)
Most people between the ages of 10-30 have been conditioned to pull out their phone during the slightest feeling of boredom, awkwardness, loneliness, or of course notification noise / buzz. It then becomes a question of which App gets opened first which usually is decided by the amount of 'reward' generated by the action.

I can only speak to my demo, but the order is usually:

Tier 1:

* Text messaging

* Snapchat

Tier 1.5:

* Tinder

* Mobile games (only applies to a subset of users 'gamers')

Tier 2:

* Facebook

* Instagram

Tier 3:

* Browser

* Mobile games (most people)

* Other

You'll notice personal communications falls above content sharing. Snapchat is a definitive type of personal communication and is pretty firmly planted (IMO).

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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by matwood on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:31PM (#13556059)
If I pull out my phone I go right to HN, or the current book I'm reading. I'm definitely old now...
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by plainOldText on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:02PM (#13556315)
Same here. In a sense HN is a sort of restricted social network for me, or even a tribe if you wish.

Except we don't gather around the fire anymore, we gather around a website and exchange stories not of hunting animals, but hunting bugs.

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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by wapz on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:58PM (#13557794)
I'm still fairly new to HN but I love the quality of posts and expertise in almost every technical thread.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by ryanSrich on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:55PM (#13556664)
I think 27 is old for HN, so I'm right there with ya. The tinder and snapchat generation blew right by me. I still use twitter and instagram, but I don't immediately reach for them. I typically go to HN, an article, or another piece of reading material when I'm bored.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by oldrny on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:43PM (#13556931)
Oh no; 27 can't be old. I can't be old D: 27 isn't old!
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by supercoder on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:14PM (#13557617)
Given majority of people exit their companies and retire by 30 - 35 these days, 27 is becoming quite old in the HN workforce.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by nicky0 on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:26AM (#13558349)
"Majority" hmmm...
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by josephagoss on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:20PM (#13557095)
Haha I'm 28, from the doom and gloom I read on HN about age discrimination I should be entering retirement! :(
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by nkkollaw on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:53PM (#13556235)
Me too.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by xenihn on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:30PM (#13556055)
I'd put Imgur and Reddit in tier 1
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by wapz on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:58PM (#13557796)
Do people just browse Imgur or what is there to do? I've never gone to the site other than to upload or through a link (mostly from Reddit).
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by nicky0 on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:27AM (#13558353)
Yes you just browse it. It has public posts and comments. Most of the popular images become popular on Imgur first, then they make their way to Reddit.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by xenihn on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:39AM (#13560040)
Yes, it has it's own discussion/community separate from Reddit. It mainly serves as a source/aggregate for Reddit image content.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by angryasian on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:39PM (#13556118)
Based on Snap's own numbers it would indicate Instagram is a tier 1.
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by paxtonab on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:41PM (#13556923)
His demo is likely younger, and thus uses Snapchat more frequently than instagram
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by nv-vn on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:54PM (#13556249)
Seems like Snapchat is growing faster though
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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by Emc2fma on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:40PM (#13556913)
Not really.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/

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Re:Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenu... by nbm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:41PM (#13556925)
One of the benefits of publicly traded and soon-to-be-traded companies is that they release things like DAU in their S-1s and quarterly reports, so we don't have to rely on anecdote.

Disclaimer: I work at Facebook (but don't follow this sort of thing beyond reading the quarterly reports every once in a while)

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