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Indians are so aggrieved with Snapchat boss that they're deleting the app

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DailyTripApr 16, 2017 | 18:29

Indians are so aggrieved with Snapchat boss that they're deleting the app

Indians are an easily-outraged lot. Months after e-commerce giant Amazon came under fire for selling doormats with an imprint of the tricolour, it is instant image messaging app Snapchat, the darling of millennials, that now faces the ire.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is the latest to have caused a furore on the Indian internet. After an ex-employee alleged that Spiegel had, in 2015, said that he wasn't interested in expanding his company's user base "to poor countries like India and Spain", many Indians took to social media to bash the young billionaire and his company left, right and centre.

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Many have unistalled the app, while others continue to give it bad ratings and reviews. So much so that the app's rating took a massive hit on Google Play Store.

Even as the SNAP - Snapchat's parent company - rubbished the ex-employee's claim, the nation (on social media) was in no mood to relent, evident from #BoycottSnapchat — one of the top trending hashtags on Twitter.

All this for the nation, of course:

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In case you thought only Indians were offended:

In this fiasco, online shopping site Snapdeal, unfortunately, came under attack from offended Indians. Many started giving Snapdeal bad reviews and downgrading it. What's in a name, you ask?

Last updated: April 16, 2017 | 18:29
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