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ROUGHLY HALF A MILLION Irish adults use Snapchat daily, highlighting the growing popularity of the self-destructing photo app.
The figures, which were compiled by Ipsos MRBI, show that of those adults (aged 15 and over) who have a Snapchat account, 63% of them check the app daily.
The app which comes closest to matching these usage rates is Facebook Messenger which sees 52% of its users checking it daily.
Despite the high usage figures, only 22% of Irish adults in the country have a Snapchat account. 39% of Irish adults have a Facebook Messenger account – helped by the company making people download the app – and more than half (52%) check the app daily.
Between WhatsApp and Viber, it’s the latter which has more accounts (40%) but it’s WhatsApp that sees the greater percentage of users checking the app daily with 520,000 or 47% of its users doing so.
Skype still remains the most popular social messaging platform with half of Irish adults owning an account, but only 7% use the service daily.
With regards to social networks, Facebook is still the dominant platform with 61% of the population owning an account. With regards to daily usage, 1.5 million users (71%) check the site daily making it the most popular service among Irish users.
By comparison, 395,000 Irish adults use Twitter daily, making it 38% of its users, while 29% of Irish adults have an account. For Instagram, 41% of users check it daily while 23% of Google+ users do the same.
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adults aged 15?
I hate it when they only give you a couple of seconds and then you dont get a chan…..
Surely the majority if the “adults” are just teenagers with fake date if births in the account.
Jennifer lawerence should have used this self-destructing photo App…..
It’s still easy to keep snaps
one of those leaked photos is of a snapchat photo with some “celebrity” showing off her hoop, never heard of her to be honest but still worth an aul J Arthur Rank all the same
If ever there was a pointless app it is Snapchat
No, the most pointless app is Yo!
You are probably correct.
Looking at the negative thumbs I got to my posting it would seem that I have upset many of the 15 year olds who use Snapchat with my previous comment. Let me amend, Snapchat is the 2nd most pointless app there ever was. I hope you all feel better.
I have the app haven’t a clue how it works!!
Me either haven’t a clue
Havent a clue how to use twitter, istagrame so forget about snapchat ! Lol
you take a photo with some stupid f**kin face on you and attach some comment with it, it’s totally revolutionary and is worth every cent of the billions the market value it to be
Goooo goooooo gaaaaa gaaaaaa snaaa chaaa
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