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snapchat is bigger than Twitter according to a report by Bloomberg snapchat has 150 million daily users twitter has an estimated 140 million people using the service daily that Twitter number was figured out from Twitter's official monthly metric of 310 million active users neither company confirmed their daily user numbers if these figures are accurate that's bad news for Twitter as the service has been struggling to compete in the social media space twitter has been around for 10 years while snapchat has been around for only four years twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spoke at the code conference this week and said he finds snapchat very modern and applauded its interface Dorsey even described Twitter as confusing that's not a good sign right meanwhile a new york post reports says twitter briefly looked into merging with yahoo the same report said yahoo CEO marissa meyer met with some Twitter executive several weeks ago but twitter CEO was not present both yahoo and twitter did not respond to this rumor however if you put together the idea that twitter is already confusing as described by its own CEO a merger with the big purple search giant probably won't help things maybe a twitter snapchat merger makes more sense but what do i know that's it for this tech news update I Maya's akhtar you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update