As part of the global trend, ‘Our Story’, better known as ‘Snapchat Live’, the Egyptian capital city, Cairo, was featured on Monday, only to be met with an uproar from hundreds of disappointed Tweeps. A year ago, the ‘Our Story’ feature was introduced by the video messaging application Snapchat, with the purpose of providing the users with a platform to publicly share their personal coverage of events or cities. Consequently, the feature posed as a rival to the mainstream media and their selective perspective in portraying different peoples, cities and cultures globally. Following the hashtag #CairoOnSnapChat, Twitter seemed to reap more responses to the story than the actual influx which took place on Snapchat. Among the 1,500 tweets shared, responses varied between shame, disappointment and a great deal of resentment for how Cairo was represented to the global users of the phone application. التويتزز اكتر من الي سنابزز الي اتعملت! نحن نختلف عن الآخرون! #CairoOnSnapchat #CairoLiveOnSnapChat — ماهمود اززات (@ModaEzzatME) August 4, 2015 Reads: “The number of Tweets have exceeded the number of Snaps! We like to be different!” How some snaps got me like…. #CairoOnSnapchat pic.twitter.com/U8G0ivssgk — Aya…
