
In 2015, it launched official Lenses, instead of incorporating a third-party selfie lens store. Snapchat launched Snapcash as a way for users to send payments, instead of integrating Venmo (although Snapcash relies on Square to actually handle the back-end transactions). Don’t call it a platformīut instead of becoming a platform for other apps, Snapchat seems to be going the full ownership route. Furthermore, the integration sheds some light as to how Snapchat could integrate other content and third-party services into its ecosystem. And at $100 million, it almost seems like a steal. Why this matters: The popularity of the Bitmoji integration proves that Bitstrips was a smart acquisition for Snapchat. Thanks for your patience!- Snapchat Support 19, 2016 We’re aware that Snapchatters are linking issues. For me, the outage lasted all day and it affected both loading of Bitmoji on the Snapchat app and the Bitmoji iOS keyboard app. Memories feature was launched earlier this summer. More users rushed to use Snapchat after the Bitmoji integration was announced than when the

Unnamed source at Snapchat, the outage took the company by surprise. The integration was so popular that it crashed the Snapchat servers for several hours-no small feat considering the app is used to servingġ0 billion video views every day without a glitch. If your friends also have linked their Bitmoji avatar to their Snapchat account, you can unlock special “Friendmojis” featuring your two characters.īut Snapchat and Bitmoji underestimated how popular their newfound union would be. The integration also makes Snapchat the only social platform for Bitmoji users.
