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Given the nature of Snapchat, one would hope that mining pictures for data, as suggested in your third point, would turn away many users.


It's unclear if they will mine pictures; the third point was merely speculation on what could present a valuable component of the business. That said, mining could be done in a non-creepy way similar to how Facebook mines data without alienating (too many) users.




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