Snap’s second major push to make its content available outside of its app comes today in the form of Snap Maps. These location-based stories can now be embedded online, like I did below with the current story of Times Square in New York. Good morning!
Snap Maps debuted over the summer as a way to track your friends. The app version populates with your friends’ Bitmoji, along with public stories from around the world. It initially was seen as a potential privacy risk when people didn’t realize how exact the coordinates of their Bitmoji could be; it can get down to the corner of the street you’re on.
For the public, online version of the map, Snap has removed usernames. Still, I wonder if people are consciously thinking about the whole...
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