

User shared image of stories by friends not showing Even the stories posted by friends/others aren’t showing up reportedly. Rather, it keeps saying “Failed to post”. So the app is not letting them post anything to Stories anymore. Users basically report every time they try to upload a snap to their stories it just gets failed.

Since the outage – which temporarily barred Snapchat users from using the app – many users are encountering issues related to Stories. While the Cloud service was back up in about five hours, it has left users of apps like Snapchat – which is powered by Cloud – complaining. And Snapchat support says they’re investigating. Many users are still not able to use the service. Though the Google outage may have been over, Snapchat issues are far from being over. Google Cloud status page with outage related developments The outage had to do with Google’s Cloud service, and was officially acknowledged as well as fixed by the company at the soonest. Original story (from June 03, 2019) follows:Īs you may already know, web services like YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat and many others were hit by a major outage in the US recently. As a result, advertisers no longer have a clear understanding of who sees their ads and how effective their campaigns are.There are new updates that have been added to the bottom of the story…

By preventing apps from tracking users across the web, ATT makes it harder to target users with specific ads. Snap is facing the same headwinds as other industry players including the war in Ukraine, inflation, the specter of rising interest rates, and Apple’s iOS privacy changes.Ĭalled App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, that change from Apple allows users to opt out of letting apps track their movement across different apps and websites. Still, that kind of growth was slower than its Q1 2021 performance, when Snap saw DAUs grow by 22% year-over-year and revenue skyrocket by 66%.ĬEO Evan Spiegel acknowledged the slow-down in Q1 2022, praising the company for continuing to grow despite a challenging macro environment. In its Q1 2022 earnings report, Snap notched an 18% year-over-year increase in daily active users (DAUs) and a 38% year-over-year jump in revenue to $1.06 billion. That’s not to say that Snap isn’t doing well on a fundamental level. Heck, even Facebook and Instagram parent Meta ( META) - down an incredible 47.8% year-to-date - is beating out Snap. Google ( GOOG, GOOGL) is also getting smacked, but its shares have dropped just 22.9% year-to-date, falling below the broader S&P 500, but still faring better than Snap. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
