SnapChat, the Coupon App?
There's a curious little line in The New York Times' SnapChat story that has us scratching our heads: the app may incorporate coupons to try and make money.
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This is not how you'd expect Snapchat, the self-destructing image-sharing app, to get college kids into trouble: many underage students at the University of Virginia dumped their beer and spirits because of a social media hoax on Monday afternoon.
There's a curious little line in The New York Times' SnapChat story that has us scratching our heads: the app may incorporate coupons to try and make money.
This probably isn't the outcome Facebook was hoping for. After Facebook created Poke, its very obvious SnapChat intimidator, the rival app saw a big boost in numbers.
The secret guide to stopping the app's sexy messages from self-destructing has arrived, and the most unsettling part is that SnapChat doesn't seem to care.
Friday afternoon Facebook released its iPhone app for the incredible vanishing half-message — because that is apparently what the kids like sending these days, if SnapChat's huge, sexy success is any indication.
Facebook may have something of a new strategy: If you can't buy the competition, build a clone of it. Rumor has it that Facebook has built and is testing its own version of SnapChat, that popular-with-the-youngsters app that many associate with sexting.
SnapChat, the "sexting app," has reached the point in an app's life where it is too popular for you not to know about.
We knew well before Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars that people really liked photo apps on their iPhones and Androids.
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