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 (@AyaWaell) August 3, 2015
*بيتنازل عن الجنسية المصرية*
#CairoOnSnapchat
— mariem (@mariemsherif884) August 4, 2015
Reads: “*Revokes Egyptian nationality*”
Most of the Tweeps criticized how the submissions failed to show a more presentable side of Cairo, saying that their hometown holds much more beauty than what was featured on Snapchat.
Did @Snapchat make Cairo look bad on purpose or were the post submissions really that bad #CairoLiveOnSnapChat #CairoOnSnapchat
— Malak (@MalakElLamie) August 4, 2015
لو كانوا نزلوا صوره زي دي للقاهره كان هيحصل حاجه؟ #CairoOnSnapchat pic.twitter.com/bGSyvxWVAc
— Ahmed (@Galala__) August 4, 2015
Reads: “If they had shared a picture of Cairo like this, what would have happened?”
Look how other countries present their countries, and look how we presented.. This is a shame !! #CairoOnSnapchat
— Nardine Amir (@NardineAmir) August 3, 2015
However, between expressing shame, and mocking the Egyptian accent in the videos shared, the Snapchat story attracted a wide conversation over classism, societal integration and how some Egyptian view their country, or like to view it.
#CAIROONSNAPCHAT on Twitter shows how classist Egyptians can be and how isolated the sectors of society are
— Ola Rashed (@OlaRashed) August 3, 2015
Have any other @Snapchat city stories caused as much upset as #CairoOnSnapchat? #CairoLiveOnSnapChat https://t.co/2hhQ0dDayl
— shauna rempel (@ShaunaRempel) August 3, 2015
عندي مشكله عميقه مع المستفذيين هنا اللي بينتقضوا الناس علي #CairoOnSnapchat محسسني ان مش ده مصر ولا ان ده الحقيقه و ان احنا لازم نعيش fake
— Eslam Fouad (@IamE50) August 3, 2015
Reads: “I have a deep issue with the provocative people on Twitter who are criticizing those on #CairoOnSnapChat. As if this weren’t Egypt, that none of this is true, and that we all have to be fake.”
Nevertheless, as the story continued to roll on, more users joined in the conversation, but this time, they appreciated the humor with a lighter heart than their previous peers.
Why are Egyptians soo negative about the snapchat story? Why not see it with a positive eye? People abroad loved it! #CairoOnSnapchat
— الهولندية المندسة (@FatemaxMasreyax) August 3, 2015
Egyptians teach the world how to share their culture with humor #CairoOnSnapchat
— Farouk Al-atmas (@Al_atmas) August 3, 2015
And of course, the number one favorite was…
#CairoOnSnapchat This is the Best SNAP I had seen today ♥♥ pic.twitter.com/y4yXL9cBcI
— ElGondy (@noor_elgendy) August 3, 2015
Comments (3)
People ruined it by trying to be funny and posting their grandma.
Snapchat rolled an upgrade out last night bringing about a few straightforward layout changes to the program – but it appears to be radically eating into the battery life on some telephones.
It is sucking up the juice actually fast and is not clearly colder than normal.
source:http://thelatestupdates.com/snapchats-latest-update-is-killing-your-phones-battery/