Young people suffer big rise in online bullying, watchdog warns
Ofcom report comes amid fears over protection of children on social media.
Streaks are used as a mark of a close friendship within the Snapchat app. It involves friends exchanging messages but each response must arrive within 24 hours. Some Snap users juggle dozens, or even hundreds, simultaneously.
Snap executives told British MPs they would "revisit" the feature. MPs from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee are exploring the addictive nature of social and gaming platforms. Streaks are created within Snapchat if two users have exchanged messages for more than three days in a row.
The longer they continue, the greater the streak. Some youngsters even go to the lengths of asking friends to sign into their accounts if they can't, in order to maintain their total.
Snapchat's senior director of public policy, Stephen Collins, and Will Scougal, Snap's creative strategy director, downplayed their significance, saying they were part of a suite of features introduced in 2015 and not an integral part of the app.
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