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Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by citricsquid on Friday June 07, 2013 @03:54PM (#5841242)
Didn't people say the same about instagram and twitter? There are services that have the ability to stick around.
Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by CoachRufus87 on Friday June 07, 2013 @06:01PM (#5842279)
We'll never truly know if instagram could've stuck around had it not been acquired.

Twitter is an indispensable communications medium that has more than 1 use case (read news, talk to friends, overthrow a government, etc). Thus ads makes sense (and I would even pay a low, yearly fee to keep it around).

Snapchat is interesting, but $100 million interesting?

Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by grinich on Saturday June 08, 2013 @11:33AM (#5845167)
Non-tech people probably say the same thing about GitHub...
Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by CoachRufus87 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:59PM (#5849571)
Github has a proven business model.
Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by torbit on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:12PM (#5841409)
I've read teens are slowly moving away from facebook to Twitter & Instagram. Probably because it has less drama. It is more about narcissism without needing to reply to anybody.
Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by onedev on Friday June 07, 2013 @05:41PM (#5842137)
Oh you read it? I'm glad you read :)

However, note that everything you read is not necessarily true. Unless you have HARD DATA, whatever you read may very well be made up.

Re:Snapchat close to raising $100 million by torbit on Friday June 07, 2013 @08:52PM (#5843099)
just following the format of who I was responding to sherlock.

"Didn't people say"