For the last couple of days, Indian social media space is congested with derogatory trolls against Snap Chat and Uber. Snap Inc., owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat and cab-aggregator Uber Technologies Inc. were excessively trolled by Indians on social media after it’s top officials made amoral statements about India.
The General manager (GM) at Uber’s Bangalore office, Christian Freese got Twitterati’s blood boiling high when he told to The New York Times, “folks (Indians) were rather locked up at home” before the company launched its operations and that people were now going out, especially on the weekend.”
Yes @nytimes – before Uber, Indians just sat fretting by the windows, seeing a great big world they couldn't access. pic.twitter.com/BIm1X6Y0CO
— Gopal Sathe (@gopalsathe) April 15, 2017
Social media became a sea of criticism for Snapchat after it’s 3-week old employee slammed Spiegel with his alleged comment on India.
Snapchat caught fire when it’s former employee Anthony Pompliano filed a lawsuit against Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel. Pompliano alleged that Spiegel said he doesn’t intend to expand to “poor countries like India and Spain”.
These incidents instigated all Indians to launch anti campaigns against these tech-giants. All Indians stood together to make these giants learn a lesson or two about what happens when you call bad mouth India and call it “POOR” Hashtags like #boycottsnapchat and #uninstallsnapchat are trending on Twitter.
Much to everyone’s surprise, Snapchat’s streak of downfall inflicted it’s bad luck onto similar sounding (public notion suggests) Indian giant, Snapdeal. The Press Trust of India reported that many people uninstalled the mobile application of Indian e-commerce platform Snapdeal instead of ‘Snapchat’ as part of the #BoycottSnapchat drive.
Thanks bud. Ppl asking us to make a statement that @snapdeal is not @snapchat was possibly the last thing I thought I would ever need to do.
— Kunal Bahl (@1kunalbahl) April 16, 2017
Nonetheless, India’s leading newspaper Hindustan Times junked Pompliano’s claims. It also quoted Spiegel saying, “This is ridiculous. Obviously Snapchat is for everyone! It’s available worldwide to download for free.”
In addition to this, the HT report also said a group of Indian hackers had released data of nearly 1.7 million Snapchat users as a part of protest campaign against Spiegel’s comments.
