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Carnival Cruise offered 15-year-old Darian Lipscomb a free vacation for his Snapchat handle. He had been posting as @carnivalcruise since he was nine. The company mounted an ad campaign fronted by Shaquille O’Neal dedicated to finding him — and offered the cruise package when they tracked him down. Lipscomb accepted, and is being taken to […]
Yesterday, Mashable discovered that the latest beta version of Snapchat had a new feature category called ‘Connected Apps.’ While it didn’t display any, the placeholder text said “These apps are connected to your Snapchat account. Choose an app to control what it has access to.” In essence, this could let third-party software harness your data, […]
An easyJet captain and his co-pilot who were recently caught on video playing Snapchat in the cockpit of a plane mid-flight have been suspended. Named as Michel Castellucci by The Sun, he and his co-pilot were caught on their phones using the filters and emotions on the social media app during a flight from Paris […]
Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images People claim they’re deleting Snapchat after Rihanna slammed the app for showing an ad that seemingly made light of domestic violence. Snap apologized earlier this week for showing the ad, which appeared to joke about Chris Brown’s 2009 conviction for assaulting Rihanna. On Thursday, after Rihanna criticized Snapchat on Instagram, social media users […]
A few days ago, Snapchat allowed an ad on its platform that plenty of folks thought made light of domestic violence. The ad was apparently for a game and it asked if viewers would rather “Slap Rihanna” or “Punch Chris Brown,” likely referencing Brown’s 2009 felony assault on the pop star. Snap then apologized for […]
Snapchat plans to give its AR Lens offerings a boost by feature submissions from its users. In late March, you’ll start seeing Lenses with their creators’ names underneath their titles mixed with Snapchat’s own and sponsored options. According to Mashable, Snapchat will feature some of the Lenses people created using the company’s Lens Studio tool. […]
Actually deleting your social media accounts is more complicated than it looks. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a9ddad2b2b92b689be91458/master/pass/STORY-facebook-open-source.jpg
When Snapchat and Instagram introduced Giphy stickers for Stories, they expected to offer PG-rated GIFs that even their young patrons can use. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned: both platforms have disabled the feature after users discovered an extremely racist GIF that says “N—- Crime Death Counter — Keep Cranking Bonzo, the Numbers Just […]
It’s usually the Facebook-owned Instagram aping Snapchat, adding features like Stories and face filters from the social selfie platform to the photo-sharing one. This time, however, it’s Snapchat that’s “borrowing” a hallmark from Instagram: now you can add @ replies to your Snaps and make it easier to tag your friends in posts. You first […]
Snapchat is down right now with the selfie app not working for hundreds of users today. Independent outage monitor Down Detector has registered a surge of Snapchat down reports today from around the world. The Snapchat issues are affecting users trying to send and receive snaps. The official Snapchat Twitter account has acknowledged the issues. […]
