

In the end, Chilton County Sheriff John Shearon sent a heavy presence of cops to the school on Monday but determined there was no real evidence to prove the threat was real. That Snapped threat resulted in only 28 of 720 students showing up for class on Monday the school decided that those who were absent will be excused. On Sunday, a Snapchat-using student allegedly said something about bringing a gun to school in response to an altercation that occurred at school last Thursday. My search led to another fake story – this time it involved threats made via Snapchat against Isabella High School in Alabama. The worldwide outage also spawned fake news about Snapchat shutting down this month.

Many of those users were ticked yesterday after Snapchat went down and they lost Snapstreaks – earned by Snapping each other every day and keeping a tally of how many days they have Snapped back and forth. I was doing some research into a story about Snapchat – I don’t use it, but 173 million people use it daily.
