Last week, app growth guru Nikita Bier debuted his newest app, Explode, on X. One video showed the ghost from Snapchat’s logo blowing up, followed by the text: “Snapchat 2011-2025.” Another showed the ghost flatlining in a hospital bed. The videos aren’t entirely tongue-in-cheek: Bier really does want to bring Snapchat down.

Apple has a tendency to figure out ways to kill popular apps, but this time, someone else has done the work for them. Nikita Bier, an app maker with the Midas Touch, announced his new product Wednesday—an app called Explode that brings disappearing messages and texts directly to iMessage. Somebody check in on Snapchat and see how they’re feeling.

Milwaukee Public Schools is pursuing a lawsuit against the companies behind Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.

As some political leaders and others direct blame at people and/or policies as wildfires ravage Los Angeles, Snapchat and its CEO are setting a different example.

When social media personality Alex Choi saw the raging wildfire in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, he grabbed his camera and dirt bike and went to document the devastation. His video capturing fire-engulfed homes,

The lawsuit accuses the social media giants of worsening the mental health crisis and contributing to suicide risks.

TikTok has returned for US users after a brief shutdown. If it goes away for good, these rival apps can help you get your fix of short-form video.

But conventional wisdom says the ruling will also benefit American social media giants, most notably Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Yet shares in Meta (Nasdaq: META) and Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), parent company of Snapchat, have dropped in ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it has referred to the Justice Department a complaint against Snap Inc that alleges its messaging app Snapchat used an artificial-intelligence chatbot that harmed young users.

While today’s generation is slightly more inclined towards other platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat, Facebook has its place among users. Since privacy is one of the major concerns for ...

An Oklahoma mother discovered her teen daughter was having “sexual conversations” with a 31-year-old man on Snapchat, police said. The man sending photos that were “sexual in nature” to the 15-year-old was a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas, the Tulsa police department said in a Jan. 22 Facebook post. He was identified as Daniel Verduzco.

Ritika Shroff had the typical Gen Z experience with social media. At 13, she signed up for Instagram, then Snapchat. Later, she downloaded TikTok and worked her way through other popular platforms. But in high school,