![]() ![]() Snapchat explained how its initial efforts to block these apps had affected users, noting that first the user would be warned, and then, if they continued to use the app, Snapchat would lock the account. But this time around, those developers may not be able to get their apps working again. Especially on paid apps, you’ll find users posting complaints of error messages and other bugs, and begging for developers to fix the problems. The change is a result of the company’s months-long efforts to make its APIs tougher for developers to access – something that users have begun to notice, according to App Store reviews. In an interview this week, Snapchat confirmed what many app users could already tell you: the third-party ecosystem is being shut down. ![]() Now the company is doing something about it. The “Snappening” ended up having little impact on Snapchat’s growth or usage, but it certainly gave the company a black eye in the media spotlight, and it’s impossible to track how many potential new users may have shied away in light of the news.Īt the time, Snapchat did little in way of apologizing to its users, essentially pointing the finger at the third-parties, instead of acknowledging how easy it made it for those apps to exist in the first place. In October 2014, insecurities in a third-party app were found to be the cause for the large-scale Snapchat hack that was dubbed “The Snappening.” The hack exposed some 200,000 Snapchat photos from a service’s whose main draw to date had been its ephemeral, and therefore more private, nature. If anything, the company seemed to have been shrugging its shoulders at the existence of its growing third-party ecosystem, instead focusing on the development of its bottom-line impacting initiatives, like the launch of new features including Snapchat Stories, Our Story and Discover, for example.īut last fall, Snapchat was finally forced to pay attention to the problem as it realized the negative ramifications that came from allowing unauthorized apps to thrive. Snapchat never provided developers with official access to its APIs, but as the large number of third-party applications makes clear, reverse engineering access to the APIs was not too difficult. What is surprising, perhaps, is how long they were allowed to operate. Given Snapchat’s popularity, it’s not surprising that massive numbers of third-party applications have been created, including apps like SaveSnap, Snap Sender, UploadSnap, Snap Keeper, SnapBox, Snap Save, Upload’n’Roll, Snap Up, Save for Snapchat, Snap-Hack, Snap Upload, SnapPad, Snap Up, SnapSend, the infamous Snapsaved, and many more. While many today are still available for download in Google and Apple’s mobile app stores, the company confirmed this week what many users have been realizing for months now – these apps will no longer work, and they’ll soon be forced to shut down entirely. For Instagram, there are apps to boost your followers Tinder users could once peer into who likes them and undo their accidental swipes and dozens Snapchat apps bloomed, allowing users to automatically save incoming photos or share items pre-recorded items from their phone’s Camera Roll.īut in the latter case, at least, those apps will be no more. Outside of a mobile application’s official product, there tends to exist a broader ecosystem catering the wants and unmet desires of its user community.
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