Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains

Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by simonklitj on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:52AM (#16322892)

That's very interesting, because in my age/location bubble (21/Denmark) it's the exact opposite. For every 30 Instagram stories, people post about 1 Snapchat story.

Talked to a friend yesterday who said that he forgot Snapchat even existed, and was installed on his phone, because he hadn't received a snap in a year.

Also, my younger siblings both use Snapchat and Messenger consistently, and are avid users of Facebook (because of meme tagging primarily).

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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by verall on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:55PM (#16328373)

Snap seems to be pretty usa centered, which explains a lot.

On memes, I think for me and most of my friends something like 90% of facebook use is meme pages.

I think people that use facebook as a meme platform will move to different platforms when something offers pseudonymity with consistent user blocking (ie pseudonym that must be linked to a phone#) and solid group/forum posting + chat features. I think people are vaguely uncomfortable with putting their real name into "Red Commie Memes For Anti-State Teens" type groups and will want to move to pseudonymous or temporal (snap) platforms when they reach feature parity.

Right now facebook memes are growing fast because it is easy for "normie" facebook users to click a couple memes and get sucked into the vortex.

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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by skinnymuch on Thursday February 08, 2018 @07:33PM (#16336891)

It’s been years. Why has nothing else come up yet. It feels like people have been talking about FB massively shrinking or being overthrown since 2010.

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