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What Are Snapchat Best Friends?

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With over 700 million snaps sent and received everyday, Snapchat is clearly growing to be one of our favorite messaging applications. And deservedly so. It is different. Unique. It takes instant photo and text messaging to a whole new level. With its latest update, Snapchat now features video chat and text messaging. Its growing popularity can be attributed to the ephemeral nature of the snaps sent and received. Snaps disappear once you have viewed them. And there's no way to get them back. But like all social apps, Snapchat too has a feature that isn't very popular with its users. And that's the Best Friends feature. A detailed guide on how to use Snapchat has been given on SnappTips. Understanding Snapchat Best Friends Snapchat Best Friends, in the simplest of terms, are 3 friends that you chat with most frequently over the week. The list, at least theoretically, is constantly changing and updated every week. You can find the Snapchat Best Friends list on

How Does Snapchat Best Friends Work?

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April 2016 UPDATE: Snapchat has released a new version of Best Friends. Read all about the new Snapchat Best Friends here . Snapchat's official support page tells us that Best Friends are determined by a magical friendship algorithm. We'll try to understand how this algorithm works. Find out everything there is to know about Snapchat Score in our new article: How to increase your Snapchat score If you follow Snapchat's updates as closely as I do, you'll know that in Snapchat previously measures a score for each friend in earlier versions of the app. This score is the number of snaps exchanged between the two of you. Note: You can now swap faces on Snapchat . And you can see this score when you visit a friend's profile. For your best friends, the scores are listed next to their usernames on your profile. Take a look at the screenshot below. It shows the profile view of a Snapchat user on an earlier version of the app. This feature is however not availab

Increase the Number of Snapchat Best Friends

By default, only 3 people are listed as your Best Friends on Snapchat. You can increase this number to 5 or 7 . Best friends feature is very convenient when you want to send out snaps. Instead of having to scroll through your entire contacts list to select the friends you want to send, you can just select them from the top of your contacts list, as your best friends are displayed on top of your contacts list. Because naturally, your best friends are the people that you exchange snaps with the most. To increase the number of Best Friends, go to Settings. Under Settings, find the Manage link. Then tap on the # of best friends link and select 3, 5 or 7 depending on the number of best friends you want. Remember also, however, that your Snapchat best friends are publicly viewable by anyone visiting your profile.

Delete, Remove or Hide Snapchat Best Friends

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2017 UPDATE: New Snapchat Best Friends -- Snapchat has introduced a new Best Friends system. Read all about it in the link above. The truth of the matter is Snapchat does not give you an option to delete someone from your best friends list, nor a setting to hide or remove the list as a whole from your profile. UPDATE: Snapchat has released a new lens that's driving everyone crazy. Take a look at the new Snapchat Face Swap feature. Read also: 1. How to use Snapchat Filters 2. All Snapchat Filters List Now that we're aware of what's not possible, let's move on to what's actually possible. And yes, you can remove or hide people from your Snapchat best friends list. I'll show you how. But first, let me take a selfie. Nah, I'm just kidding. If you want to know more about Snapchat, tech blog SnappTips has posted a detailed guide on how to use Snapchat . Also, a new Snapchat emoji that's driving people crazy: the snapchat hourglass emoji . F

Snapchat Best Friends Score - Meaning & Explanation

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There are two explanations to Snapchat best friends score. I'm only doing this post because I've seen a lot of people ask this question over and over again: what's the meaning of Snapchat best friends score? A new and updated version of this article can be found here: How snapchat score works It's a stupid question actually because there's no such thing as a Snapchat best friends score, at least not in the new versions of Snapchat. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's debunk some myths. What is not a Best Friends Score? Take a look at the screenshot below: This is a screenshot of a fellow blogger Katie Artemas' Snapchat profile. I hope she doesn't mind me using the pic; it's for demonstration purposes only. Notice the number on top of the best friends list. Here's what you're thinking: this is the best friends score. Well you're wrong. This is not the best friends score. Like I said, there is no such things as a best

No Best Friends on Snapchat - What It Means

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If you're new to Snapchat, you probably don't know what Best Friends are in Snapchat. Well, Snapchat best friends are 3 people that you exchange snaps with most frequently over the period of 7 days. These friends are displayed on your profile as well as on top of your contacts list. However, if you're new to Snapchat and haven't had interactions with anyone, your profile will display a message saying 'No best friends :('. It is also possible that you have no best friends on Snapchat even after you have used the app for a long time. We'll discuss this in the following passages. Why does my Snapchat profile say 'No best friends'? Because you suck and no one wants to be friends with you. LOL. I'm kidding. The truth is -- best friends on Snapchat is only a reflection of the number of interactions you have with other people on Snapchat. And these so-called 'best friends' may not necessarily turn out to be your best friends in real

How to Change Your Snapchat Best Friends

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There are a thousand reasons why you'd want to change your Snapchat best friends. But the underlying truth to it is that your best friends, the people you chat with most frequently, are displayed publicly on your profile. Anyone who visits your profile can see who your best friends are. This is a concern in so many ways. For one, why would you want anyone to know who you've been exchanging pictures with most frequently over the week? And Snapchat known for all the nude pics and sexts, you would not want anyone, especially people close to you, knowing you've been exchanging nude pics with a particular someone. Yes, yes, using Snapchat doesn't necessarily mean you're exchanging nude pics or sexting. But one thing is certain: you don't want others to keep a copy of the pics or messages you sent on Snapchat, which of course is the basic foundation on which Snapchat is built in the first place -- self-deleting messages and pictures. Unfortunately however, S