Common Snapchat Terms
The common terms in Snapchat are the functions or features which the users use for its functioning, and customization of snaps. The users are connected with each other through Snapchat, and send photos or videos to privately their friends or to the general public. It also provides different options of customization which also enable it change the snaps according to your requirements. Here are the common terms and functions available in Snapchat are discussed in detail.
Discover:
Discover feature of Snapchat is commonly used for viewing stories by public who are not enlisted on your friends list. These stories are updated after 24 hours, and these are sent to major editorials for reviews and authentications.
Snapchat Score:
The activities of snap users are determined through snapchat score. It describes how much a user send snaps, remain active, being searched out, receive messages or snaps, and interact with other users.
Some user have 100000+ score, and they are called Snapcheaters, while some user have very low score and they are called loosers. It depends on how much a user spend time on Snapchat and interact with other users.
Snap Code:
To add a friend in Snapchat without entering the username manually, a QR code is scanned and user is added in friend list of Snapchat. Every user has a unique QR code, which can be sent to other users to add in friend list. You can also find out your QR code by clicking on your profile left corner, and you can also send to other users to add you in their friends list.
Chat:
Snapchat is also a popular social media application to chat with other live users. However, snapchat make itself distinguished from other social media platforms due to its others features, like photo and video editing and beautifying.
Snap:
Snap is a photo or video which a user sends to the friends or publically shared. Snapchat is most commonly app for sending snaps. A user can also apply filters on photos and videos, and also beautifies it.
Snap Streak:
When a user send snaps to a friend for consecutive three days and his friend also reply him with snaps, then they achieve a new batch of fire emoji (🔥), for one hundred continuous day (💯), when steak is about to end, a hourglass icon (⌛) is shown, and to pin a conversation to the top of list, a Pushpin icon (📌) is shown in a Snap streak.
These streaks are to be maintained with consecutive conversation through sending snaps in the form of photos and videos in every 24 hours, otherwise these streaks are lost.
Geo Filters:
Geo filter is an important feature of snapcaht which pinpoint the location where the photo or video is taken. It also explores the events in a particular area from where photos or videos are taken. It depends of location based overlays with the help of geo filters.
Snapchat Advertising:
Snapchat is a social media platform used for advertising where you can set your own budget as low as $5 only to advertise for 24 hours. It helps you to engage relevant huge amount of 350 million active users. You can run your advertising campaigns easily, and optimize it according to audience, and nature of product in a real time.
My Story & Our Story:
When a user send a photo or video in the form of Snap to a person in his friends list, it’s called My Story, and when he published it with access to general public, it is called Our Story.
Capture Button:
A camera button at the end in the middle is called ‘Capture Button’ which is used to capture photo by clicking it. If you click and hold it, a video is started. Both photos and videos are called Snaps.
