After the American news website, Variety, quoted former
Snapchat employee, Anthony Pompliano, saying that the social media company's
Chief Executive Officer, Evan Spiegel, was disinterested to expand the business
to "poor countries" like India and that the popular app is “only for
rich people”, Bollywood has taken to Twitter to opine on the matter.
Anupam Kher, Bipasha Basu, Urvashi Rautela and Sophie
Choudry tweeted their opinions, while rapper Raftaar deleted the app and
tweeted a screenshot on his social handle.
Rich or poor, we can always the power to snap a chat.:)
— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) April 16, 2017
Was not on it anyways! Very sad to speak like this in today's day and age. https://t.co/SzZpFIODjz
— Bipasha Basu (@bipsluvurself) April 16, 2017
Was never a big #Snapchat fan anyway😏 https://t.co/JVK6erhN0W
— Sophie Choudry (@Sophie_Choudry) April 16, 2017
Snapchat DELETED.
— RaftaaR (@raftaarmusic) April 16, 2017
Kabhi aao Delhi ke Golf Links. Tumhe hamari gareebi dikhate hain.
Racist piece of shit.@Snapchat pic.twitter.com/ntQV7uiZJp
Dear @evanspiegel
— URVASHI RAUTELA (@URautelaForever) April 16, 2017
India is so rich that PM Narendra Modi had to implement demonetization to find out who is actually poor!#Snapchat pic.twitter.com/ve9AFs2Saq
After the report breakthrough, Snapchat faced heavy
backlash from users and #UninstalSnapchat and #BoycottSnapchat started trending
on Twitter.
According to the Variety report, Mr Pompliano - who has also worked at tech
giant Facebook - was in a meeting with the Snapchat CEO to discuss and propose
ideas for global outreach and growth of the application when he was
"abruptly" interrupted by Mr Spiegel.
"The app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor
countries like India and Spain," Mr Spiegel reportedly told Mr Pompliano.
These allegations are contained in Mr Pompliano's lawsuit, filed at a US court
in January. According to the lawsuit, the former employee also claims that
Snapchat inflated user data and "completely misinformed about key
metrics".
A while back, Snapchat has rubbished the allegations,
according to various reports. "The simple fact is that he (Mr
Pompliano) knows nothing about Snap's current metric," Variety quoted the
company's attorneys as saying.
Mr Spiegel, just for your information, India is one of
the fastest growing Internet markets in the world.
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