Comments on: Snapchat Snapshot

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:01:00 +0000

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The difference is probably OHLC v line graph.

If you put yourself up for auction and nobody bids, you have a whole new set of problems.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

By: Tim Bates

Tim Bates — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:54:00 +0000

In reply to JLM. Yea CNBC was talking about how can TWTR a public utility after they went home from the dance alone! BTW an Error in your opening numbers, the peak was Dec 30th 2013 according to Yahoo charts. My vote is slow decent into the sunset! Or break it up and make it industry based form of PRWEB.

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:57:00 +0000

In reply to Tim Bates.

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You read my mind. Take a look at:

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/twitter-death-spiral-resurrection/

Have you been tapping my computer?

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

By: Tim Bates

Tim Bates — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:36:00 +0000

Social media currently for Gen Z seems a fashion buy, today Abercrombie tomorrow ? FB did a great job of monetization and has kept ahead of the pack by driving revenue and creating Psychographic data. (a key value) Snap and twitter fall short. I don’t see Dorsey and DJT saving TWTR nor do I see how non-persistent content is going to have a long tail! More of an Atoms over Bits guy lately!

By: Andrew Cashion

Andrew Cashion — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 04:47:00 +0000

The spectacles for speculation….? A new word-phrase came to mind with this, “Wall Street Pro-Fucking.”

It’s been a while for those assholes, plus the lefty hippies and their “Augmented Reality” are limited IMO by Spiegel’s capability to create teams to build out and grow AR technology against the likes of Google, Apple, Amazon, fuck it maybe even Ebay? just kidding. But yeah Pro-Fucking via Wall Street time.

By: kws78

kws78 — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 02:43:00 +0000

Correction: Offering is Class A stock, zero votes per share. Opening sentence of the cover: “This is an initial public offering of shares of non-voting Class A common stock of Snap Inc.”

By: JLM

JLM — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:58:00 +0000

In reply to sigmaalgebra.

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I wonder how that scenario is different than for Instagram?

I think the difference is the survivability of the pics.

I don’t do enough drunk Instas to really know what I’m talking about.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

By: Dan T

Dan T — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:55:00 +0000

Proud parent of 4 high schoolers – my two boys in 10th and 12th grade are part of the group that use it 18 times a day (they are still on honor roll and play multiple sports) – – but I don’t quite get it. They use NOTHING else . . no facebook, no instagram, not twitter .. just snapchat. Seems to mostly be shots of weird stuff or random selfies – they keep track of how many consecutive days that they shapchat with their friends . . gotta keep that streak going because ?????
I did find this site that helped me understand how it is used
http://www.digitalparenting.ie/snapchat.html
It seemed to be in synch with what my boys were telling me.
I’m betting it’s a fad . .something new will replace it – I remember that weird Chatroulette that was supposed to be big – but it was really just for pervs.

By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:53:00 +0000

One could talk themselves into optimism on Snapchat with a network effects, virality argument:

(1) Joe and Susan are talking in the hall before the first class, and Joe asks Susan for a picture of her. Susan says that she will send one via Snapchat and asks Joe for his user ID. Joe does not yet have a user ID, so Susan concludes that Joe is not cool, and Joe missed out on the picture.

(2) With that failure, Joe learns his lesson and becomes a Snapchat user.

(3) Joe and Mary talk at lunch, and Joe asks Mary to send him a picture on Snapchat and gives Mary his Snapchat ID. Mary agrees. But to send the picture, Mary has to become a Snapchat user and does.

So, from one Snapchat user Susan, both Joe and Mary become Snapchat users.

(4) Mary sees a cute, hungry kitten at the backdoor, adopts it, and sends a picture to everyone she knows on Snapchat. So, Mary sees that by encouraging others to have Snapchat IDs, she can have more people to send pictures of kittens or whatever so encourages everyone she knows at school to get a Snapchat ID and give it to her.

With such scenarios, one could guess that Snapchat will grow due to network effects, virality.

But, maybe Zuck wants the Snapchat users so offers a similar service, Peek-Z. Here is a surprise: Since Susan, Joe, and Mary and all of Mary’s friends on Snapchat are already on Facebook, Zuck’s new service Peek-Z gets instant network effects, virality.

(5) Tom also wants a picture of Susan (she is popular) and asks Susan. She asks for Tom’s Snapchat user ID, but Tom says he has no Snapchat user ID but gives Susan his Facebook user ID and asks if Susan can send via Facebook’s Peek-Z, confident that Susan also has a Facebook user ID, which she does. So, Susan checks out Peek-Z and then takes her smartphone into Daddy’s bathroom, stands before the mirror, and sends Tom a picture via Snap-Z she believes Tom will like and looks forward to a date from Tom. Thus Susan cuts off some of the Snapchat ad revenue, gets more ad revenue for Zuck, and from her date, soon, with Tom gets more revenue for a romantic Italian restaurant and has a romantic walk on the beach.

By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:27:00 +0000

To be clear, Definition: The set of active users is all users who visit up to eighteen times per day and spend about thirty minutes a day on the app. Theorem: The active users visit up to eighteen times per day and spend about thirty minutes a day on the app. Proof: Immediate from the definition. QED. Remark: We put that result on our bookshelf of other mathematical classics such as A Short Table of Even Primes.