Snapchat overtakes Twitter for the first time with 150 million daily users
Twitter has 140 million users but has been surpassed by trendy new app
- Social network/messaging app was created 4 years ago, with various developments since
- Twitter has announced that links and multimedia will stop counting as part of 140 characters
Snapchat has now taken over Twitter in the number of daily users on each app. The app, which takes the best of social network and messaging apps, now has 150 million daily users, whereas the microblogging social network has 140 million.
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp have also taken over Twitter, who have introduced various measures in order to reverse this slide, after previously being considered the second most-used social networking site.
Snapchat was created some 4 years ago, which demonstrates a rapid increase for the application in comparison with that of the 140-character site, which until now had grown substantially since its birth in 2006.
The growth of Snapchat is mostly attributed to its vast popularity among the younger generation
The growth of Snapchat is mostly attributed to its vast popularity among the younger generation, which various surveys have attributed this to the fact that their parents do not use it, so they cannot interfere with the private online social lives of their children.
The app uses a variety of new features, but the basic concept is that friends send pictures to each other with short messages in which they can only view for a limited period of time before it is deleted.
Recent developments include the addition of a "story", where you can document events of your day into a compact collection, as well as the infamous "face swap", where you have the ability to change faces with a person in the same picture.