Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown,[3] when they were students at Stanford University .[4][5][6] 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 September 2015, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds),[7] after which Snapchat claims they will be deleted from the company's servers. read more