Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with 54 percent of the vote, iMessage advances to the next round. Today, the Dick Pic app goes toe-to-toe with the short-form video…
A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it. No, no, Snap decided that the next evolution in the art of taking pictures of yourself would involve a flying robot.
In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened to be using the…
Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight videos, public stories and public profiles for users to share an article or website with their followers easily.
As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap’s membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which is officially halfway to its goal of 10 million.
