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This Is the Data Snapchat Doesn’t Want You to See

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Snapchat keeps its partners, investors, and even employees in the dark about how core features are performing. Now, some of those figures are finally being dragged into the light.

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Snapchat takes its secrecy seriously. Very, very seriously.

Take the case of one former Snapchat employee. On his first day, he was forced to sit through an ominous orientation in which he was threatened with termination if he so much as breathed a word of what he was working on...

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