Facebook’s new Poke app has apparently been a blessing in costume for Snapchat.
Facebook Poke has been described by some as a direct fraud of Snapchat, a mobile app that lets we send cinema and videos to people that self-destruct after a brief time. And while you’d consider carrying a behemoth like Facebook come barreling into your domain would be a disaster, for Snapchat it’s been a opposite.
According to Topsy, a amicable media and web analytics firm, online mentions of Snapchat have soared given a recover of Poke. Snapchat also is sepulchral in a download dialect — it’s now a fourth many renouned iPhone app in iTunes, since Facebook Poke hardly creates a tip 100.
In Google Play, Snapchat is a 31st many renouned giveaway app. As for a Android chronicle of Poke — there isn’t one, a cause that really good could boost Snapchat’s recognition with mobile users.
Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel responded to Facebook’s recover of Poke final week by saying, “Welcome, Facebook. Seriously.” His confidence, it turns out, was right on a mark.
While a dual apps are strikingly similar, there are some differences, however.
While both Facebook Poke and Snapchat let we pull over images and make videos shorter than 10 seconds, Poke is location-aware, lets we send 120-character messages, necessitates that we use a Facebook username and usually works with Facebook friends. Alternately, Snapchat does not offer a plcae service, usually allows for 33-character print captions though can summary friends on and off of Facebook.
Supposedly coded with assistance from CEO Mark Zuckerberg , Poke joins a handful of other standalone Facebook apps, including Instagram, Messenger and Camera, nonetheless some people have questioned why Facebook can’t innovate on a own and has to review to possibly creation costly purchases like a billion-dollar merger of Instagram, or in a box of Snapchat, sincerely duplicating it.
Regardless, apps like Snapchat and Poke positively have application for some people.
While Snapchat and Poke summary recipients can take a screenshot to safety a sold communication, both apps warning a sender when someone does so.