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Clearly people do use snapchap, so either you're right and they have hundreds of millions of insane people, or you're just clearly not the target demographic.

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I'm not saying there aren't users. I'm saying that it's getting absolutely mauled by its competition. Obviously it's hyperbole to say it's dead, but it's definitely dying unless it can do something drastic. It's got no redeeming features that would make me want to use it over Messenger, Messenger/Facebook Stories, or Instagram Stories. I used Snapchat myself up until its competitors were released - so did many of my friends.

My point is it appears to be mauled from your perspective, but you’re clearly not the target user. If you were, people wouldbe jumping off of there as quickly as you did, but that’s clearly not the case.

It’s more likely you’re missing something and they do have a user demographic that is strongly entrenched. Of the users they do have they have strong user activity.

Take my 11 year old sister. She primarily uses snapchat and I can’t see her ever switching. She definitely doesn’t shop around these apps based off of some pro/con table of features.

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