Social Networks
Snapchat:
What is Snapchat's history?
- Created by two Stanford University students
- Snapchat first launched in July 2011
- Snapchat was released for Android on November 29, 2012
- Snapchat's first paid advertisement was for Ouija shown to users on October 19, 2014
What is it?
- It is a video messaging app
- Users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to people you add as your "friends"
Interesting Facts
- Snapchat was hacked on December 31, 2013 by an Australian security firm
- The firm revealed parts of approximately 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers
- Snapchat was voted most unreliable by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on May 15, 2014
- Was hacked again in January of 2014 and the hacker sent images of fruit smoothies along with the address of a spam website to users
- The "mascot" comes from the group called Wu-Tang Clan
- 70% of Snapchat's users are women
- Snapchat was originally called Picaboo
- There's a Snapchat for kids under 13 called SnapKidz
- Facebook tried to buy Snapchat for $1 billion in October 2013
- There are approximately 400 million snaps sent in a day