Over the weekend, a report published by the Wall Street Journal suggested that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was rebuffed by Snapchat after he proposed a $1 billion acquisition of the messaging company. Snapchat is an app that sends messages that quickly delete; often compared to the beginning of each Mission Impossible episode, which would feature taped instructions to an agent self-destructing, Snapchat is currently riding on a wave of popularity. So much so, in fact, that the metrics of the company's growth seem to remind Zuckerberg of Instagram. The photo-sharing social networking site was purchased by Facebook last year for $1 billion in stock...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Snapchat-desired-by-Zuckerberg-might-have-26-million-users_id48778
