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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by angryasian on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:35PM (#6891691)
I would disagree from the reddit threads revolving around snapchat and nude pictures and 4chan threads. I would think its a mistake to think its not used primarily for sexting.

I don't have any data either but I think comments like op above are really trying to legitimize a sexting app. Lets take the recent Tumblr acquisition. Most tumblr blogs involved porn although they were able to legitimize is it as a better blogging service.

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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by argonaut on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:57PM (#6891817)
Because reddit and 4chan are representative of Snapchat users. Right? Right..?

Seriously, of all the users of Snapchat that I know, only one of them is a reddit user as well.

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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by angryasian on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:46AM (#6893152)
no but they are representative of their primary demographic. Your personal experience means a lot less than the two biggest sites used by snapchat's target demographic.
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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by argonaut on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:21AM (#6893265)
And your unsubstantiated statements mean more..?
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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by angryasian on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:16PM (#6896023)
how is it unsubstantiated ? reddit has subteddits dedicated to sharing snapchats you can see subscriber numbers 4 Chan is a little harder to measure but the fact the threats are brought up several times a day days a lot
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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by argonaut on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:10PM (#6904566)
Some reddit users are snapchat users != most (or even a substantial minority!) of snapchat users are reddit users.

Statistics 101.

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Re:Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Un... by Grue3 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:37AM (#6893943)
>Most tumblr blogs involved porn

This is blatantly false. It was estimated that about 10% did. Porn was never the biggest draw of Tumblr.

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