Snapchat launches its developer platform, promises to put privacy first

Today, the app is officially launching SnapKit, Snapchat’s developer platform, which allows developers to bring Snapchat features, like Bitmoji and Stories, into their apps … In this way, Snap Kit is clearly trying to position itself as a kind of anti-Facebook: a privacy-friendly developer platform that still manages to make Snapchat play nice with other apps … At a time when distrust for the massive social network is at an all-time high, thanks largely to its overly lax developer policies, Snap can now offer up its own privacy-conscious alternative to developers and users.