How Much Has Snapchat Really Grown in 4 Years?

Snapchat was launched in 2011, and has a reputation for fast growth. But how does it compare to where other social platforms were 4 years in? f Facebook was launched in February 2004. Snapchat was released in September 2011. In 2008, it had: Today, it has: 140 million monthly active users who send who updated an estimated 200 million monthly active users 13 million 400 million snaps per day. statuses per day. The platform grew They averaģed 57% in 2014. 600,000 So far, it's generated new users per day and generated, $0 $272 million in revenue in 2008. in revenue. f Twitter was launched in March 2006. Instagram was launched in October 2010. In 2010, it had: In 2014, it had: 30 million monthly active users 180 million monthly active users who sent who updated 50 million tweets per day. 70 million It averaged photos and videos per day. It averaged 370,000 130,000 new users per day and was purchased by Facebook for new users and per week generated $1 billion $45 million in revenue. in 2012. Sources: https://www.snapchat.com/ads http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/snapchat-10-billion-valuation-evan-spiegel_n_5634305.html http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/14/technology/social/snapchat-primer/index.html http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/facebook-now-growing-by-over-600000-users-a-day-and-new-engagement-stats/215633 http://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-revenue-and-net-income/ http://mashable.com/2010/02/22/twitter-50-million-tweets/ http://www.wired.com/2011/01/twitter-revenues/ http://fortune.com/2014/12/10/instagram-leaves-twitter-in-the-dust-with-300-million-active-users/ http://tweetreports.com/twitter/twitter-200-million-accounts/ http://www.globalwebindex.net/blog/snapchat-was-the-fastest-growing-social-app-of-2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/snapchat-said-to-be-valued-at-16-billion-in-new-fundraising http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchats-monthly-active-users-may-be-nearing-200-million-2014-12 WebpageFX