Snapchat seen surging past Twitter, Pinterest in US

Snapchat disclosed last month that it raised more than USD 1.8 billion in new funding. Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat by year’s end will have more US users than either Twitter or Pinterest, a market tracker said today.
The number of people using Snapchat in the United States will leap more than 27 percent this year to 58.6 million, meaning that nearly one in five people in the country will be using the service, according to an eMarketer forecast.
Twitter was expected to have 56.8 millio