Snapchat Introduces Voting Feature: The New Initiative Might Pool in More Young Voters

Snapchat is one of the leading instant messaging apps and the youngsters are always sticking over it. The 2018 midterm elections are coming up and it is an initiative to pool in more young voters. Snapchat is the medium now. The app has introduced a new voter registration system with which more voters of the youth can be targeted. Experts say that it is an integrated design that is synced with the app and there are predictions that new voters would be registered this way.

This facility will start its practice from Tuesday and all the Snapchat users who are over the age 18 will be able to avail the service of registration. There would be a link that will say “Register to Vote”, if their age is displayed over 18 in their profile. As they click on the button of the vote the user will be redirected to a different portal called TurboVote. The user will also get a notification alert that will show them the new feature. There will be a video message for the message which is usually sent by the team on national holidays.

There will be a voter registration filter that will have a part called Our Story. This will comprise the trending topics that the users are interested in. As the users start swapping through the stories, the registration portal will show. The swipe will then give the voting option where the users will get to discover the pages of different media partners.

During the last election, Snapchat additionally ran a campaign for voter enrollment. Video advertisements with registration links will be enlisted and showed between stories. This feature is much like Instagram started doing this year. Experts say that in any case, Snap's 2018 activity is more powerful than its past endeavors.

Its positioning in the profile segment additionally separates it from Facebook and Twitter. Both the other social networking sites have incorporated strategies to enlist the same in the newsfeed. Snapchat doesn't precisely have a newsfeed so the nearest would be the story channel.  The officials of Snapchat says that putting the voting button in the profile was vital: the profile segment is the place where there is the maximum number of traffic, as indicated by Snap since it’s the place where users see their stories.

In any case, incorporating register to vote in the profile segment additionally puts forth a solid expression: it says that being an enlisted voter and a functioning member in the vote based system is a critical part of one's personality. However, considering that the online life profiles will be helpful the admins shall prep to mirror the individual. Snap affirming voter enlistment as a feature of that character is critical — and maybe something that will reverberate with Snapchat's politically dynamic Gen-Z and youthful millennial client base.

The administration of the Snapchat is also quite confident that the new voters can be reached by this strategy. As per the reports shared by the admin of the app, around 80% of the voters who are using the app are over the age of 18. So the campaign can be estimated to take a meaningful turn in the coming election. It likewise asserts that advertisers utilizing Snapchat can achieve a tentative number of 18 to 24-year-old clients to Instagram. Snapchat says it achieves 28.5 to 30 million 18 to 24-year-old clients in the U.S. As indicated by an ongoing review of Instagram clients, roughly 32 percent of its 1 billion-in number client base is under the age bracket of 18-24.

Snapchat releases some surprising figures of user engagement and truly speaking the number is quite surprising. As per the reports, an average user logs in around 20 times in a single day. The average time spend on login is around 30 minutes in an entire day. The number of snaps shared in a day is 20 for each user. Well, now you know why teacher and parents complained that the children are not attentive towards their studies and spend time over their smartphones.

As per sources, this won’t be the first time when the platform is being used for political actions. The Snap Maps included reflection and maybe even helped spread, the tide of walkouts that young people were occupied with to request firearm control.  

Considering all the factors, enrolling to vote and empowering youngsters to share issues they're enthusiastic about is only a first — and rather impartially a feel-great emotion but is also a venture to utilize the platform of Snapchat for dynamic uses. Furthermore, regardless of whether online influence through these platforms will be able to use their capacity in legislative issues at all one thing can be seen certainly whether the generation is anyway interested in the matter. The Facebook users might have unintentionally taken part in a social analysis when Facebook started the campaign- how putting a voting consolation catch influenced the 2010 decisions.