Spiegel said most user feedback from direct emails and Twitter posts is about sending funny faces and messages, not racy images.īut he added that the app was partially inspired by the Anthony Weiner scandal last spring and a desire to create an app with expiring data. It doesn’t seem that fun when you can have real sex.” “I’m not convinced that the whole sexting thing is as big as the media makes it out to be,” he said. But the Stanford senior isn’t sold on the idea that Snapchat will become the must-have app for sexters.

The New York Times happened to cover the more risqué side of the app-its potential use for sexting. “I think our application makes communication a lot more human and natural.”īy taking away the part about a photo lasting forever, it actually encourages users to share more. “It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet everyone decided everything should stick around forever,” Spiegel said. If you try to take a screenshot, the app will notify the sender. These photos last for up to 10 seconds, before they disappear forever. The free app allows users to send others photos and control how long receivers can see them. Why? Snapchat is a photo-sharing app that changes privacy norms in a very novel way. and just scored some mainstream media attention in The New York Times. Snapchat is #12 on the free iOS photo app charts in the U.S.

“The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.”Įvan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month.

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