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From what I understand Snapchat has more daily active users than Twitter and also a user base growing much faster.

wow that's surprising, and it looks like its a by a good amount of people. I feel like snapchat is thought of as a dying company and twitter seems to be known by everyone. Though I get the feeling most people don't think twitter is a place for them to participate in, them being regular people.

Maybe Twitter has more bots on the platform than real users, which is why Snap is still alive.

Given they are a $100B dollar company, they are far from 'dying'.

> Given they are a $100B dollar company, they are far from 'dying'.

Meh, valuation isn't everything. Uber and WeWork also have high valuations, little tangible assets, but are bleeding money and have no clear path to profitability.

Somehow they have more REAL daily active users (DAU) (not bots) than Twitter, twice as valuable than them and have already expanded out from being just an app but have an ecosystem of integrations in other apps and are still alive after being copied everywhere.

Whereas the HN crowd 'thought' they either shut down or got acquired. As always, they 'thought' wrong. Again.

It's hard to grasp the reality check here but they are far from 'dying'.

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