Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by Josh Meyers, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy, then Stanford University students. Using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps". Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps (as of April 2014, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds), after which they will be hidden from the recipient's device and deleted from Snapchat's servers. According to Snapchat in May 2014, the app's users were sending 700 million photos and videos per day, while Snapchat Stories content was being viewed 500 million times per day. Snapchat was started by Reggie Brown and Josh Meyers as a project for one of Meyer's classes at Stanford University, where Meyers was a product design major. Beginning under the name Picaboo, the two later brought Bobby Murphy into the project to code the application. When Meye...