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Hey Gibsonsecurity,

Just wondering about Snapchat's claim to have 70% users.

Could they have possibly run the names of users through a gender DB to get a rough percentage?

We thought about that, and it would be pretty misleading. If they did find out data that way, they should really tell people how inaccurate it can be.

Why not just take a random sample of 5000 users and look at their snaps to determine if they're male or female? You won't be exact but you'll know if it's 70% women instead of 50%.

Obvious privacy reasons that would probably get Snapchat sued, but otherwise, yes that would probably work.

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