Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the Doubters to Keep Mum

Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by nikcub on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:14PM (#15677921)

I'm also very optimistic about Snap - it's one of the only social networks I use regularly.

That said, Snap could fix a lot of things and grow revenue and the stock could still not move - they're at about the same market cap of Twitter with a fraction of the revenue and user growth that is similarly stalling

There seems to be a hard boundary with reaching the demographic of users in developed nations and both Snap and Twitter are there

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday November 11, 2017 @04:39PM (#15678331)

> There seems to be a hard boundary with reaching the demographic of users in developed nations and both Snap and Twitter are there

I think Twitter and snap are very different. Snap is a messenger app and has the same potential as FB messenger or wechat. Twitter will never be that. The latest news has Tencent making a strategic investment and bringing chinese style monetization to Snapchat. I'm very optimistic about this.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by leroy_masochist on Saturday November 11, 2017 @06:24PM (#15678748)

Interesting, what is Chinese style monetization?

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by QML on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:38PM (#15679669)

I think it’s referring to how a lot of Chinese apps have micro transactions / are essentially payment channels with incentives built in or games built on top.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday November 11, 2017 @07:59PM (#15679094)

Games, payment, micro-transactions.

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