Snapchat Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Blink brings text and group chat to the ephemeral messaging world

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 29th, 2013)

The success of Snapchat has shown that users like ephemeral messaging, the ability to send a single-use picture message to a friend which deletes itself seconds after being seen. But Snapchat only lets you send pictures. Enter Blink. Blink is the latest app to tackle the "this message will ...

Snapchat users share 150 million photos daily

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 16th, 2013)

Speaking at the All Things D: Dive into Mobile conference in New York City today, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel revealed that the popular photo-sharing app is much more popular than anyone may have imagined. Specifically, Spiegel noted that Snapchat users send over 150 million photos through the ...

Facebook's Poke app becomes unpopular in a hurry

by Mike Wehner (Jan 21st, 2013)

If Facebook thought its Poke app would quickly dominate the timed messaging scene and make Snapchat a thing of the past, its plan appears to be off to a rocky start. As Mashable reports, after debuting in the No. 1 slot on the iOS free apps list, Poke has experienced a precipitous drop in ...