Quick shoutout to the folks at JTV, Twitch, Exec, YC, our investors, AWS, and many many helpful friends - without all of your support this wouldn't have been possible. Also quick thanks to Mike Krieger from Instagram - his scaling presentation convinced us that a couple smart dudes and AWS can scale anything. Now, back to work!
Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit.
Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.
#2 on app store is definitely impressive. Why only 25 ratings I wonder..
App is very nice, fast, and functional
Felt like a bit of a google+ ghost town vibe though. On the follow friends screen it looked like a ton of my friends were on socialcam but on the feed it's just the same 2 people posting, and not that frequently.
There are the celebs on there though..
All in all seems like they're doing
pretty well and also exaggerating usership in the way the poster above describes
Congrats to Michael and the hard working folks at Socialcam, who fully deserve their success. I've been using it since V1 and it continues to be one of my most used apps.
Also kudos to them for not over-associating their company as the Instagram for video, which must have been tempting recently. While that is one description, Socialcam seems to have its own original vision and is clearly chasing it with gusto.
I knew they'd just turned the corner when a friend Redwood City, my old weightlifting coach and my brother in law in New York all watched the same video (posted to FB).
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https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam -- you'd expect more twitter action for a social thingie with 4MM new users in a weekend
More evidence: it's the #2 free app on the app store.
App is very nice, fast, and functional
Felt like a bit of a google+ ghost town vibe though. On the follow friends screen it looked like a ton of my friends were on socialcam but on the feed it's just the same 2 people posting, and not that frequently.
There are the celebs on there though..
All in all seems like they're doing pretty well and also exaggerating usership in the way the poster above describes
Also kudos to them for not over-associating their company as the Instagram for video, which must have been tempting recently. While that is one description, Socialcam seems to have its own original vision and is clearly chasing it with gusto.