While most teenagers spend their Sundays catching up on homework, high school senior Christina Gee has spent the last few months helping build the next Snapchat. She serves as one of several teen advisors to Squawk Messenger, an app launching in the App Store today on iOS. Gee offers insight on everything from read receipts to GIFs to "ephemeral" exploding pictures and text messages with one question in mind: would she and her friends actually use the app to talk to each other?
Since the meteoric rise of Snapchat, tech pundits, venture capitalists, and startup founders have tirelessly attempted to decode its winning formula. Squawk founders Chloe Bregman and Alex Karweit turned directly to the trend setting oracles that helped launch...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/25/4462376/squawk-messenger-teens-advisory-board
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