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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by freddie_mercury on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:18AM (#16322966)
I don't know a single person in Vietnam who uses Snapchat. Every person I've ever met uses Instagram. Everyone uses Facebook. Facebook Messenger is the most popular chat tool by a fair margin. No one ever sends a message by Snap or SMS.

We have a population of 100 million.

The world is bigger than just the US.

Indonesia, with a population of 260 million, also overwhelmingly prefers Facebook over Snapchat.

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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by ddorian43 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:44AM (#16323314)
.. yeah but they aren't worth much $ compared to US. Or to California.
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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by Grue3 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:09AM (#16323677)
Good luck growing to 1 billion users in California.
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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by ddorian43 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:16AM (#16324497)
Good luck milking 1B poor people.
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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by freddie_mercury on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:54AM (#16338825)
The original thread was typical "I don't know anybody who X".

Now you're shifting the goalposts.

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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by ddorian43 on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:15AM (#16338925)
My response was: who gives a shit when people in Cambodia don't use your app ? Meaning they're less valuable.

But now that I think a little more, maybe we're starting to see a shift of say, tobacco + fast-food etc moving into poorer countries to extract $$ from them. So this mobile-game-social-addiction is the next/current step.

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Re:Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains by emptyfile on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:54AM (#16324364)
What about Europe? Ever since Instagram added stories I don't think I even heard the word Snapchat mentioned.
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