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Microsoft purges store of Snapchat clones leaving Windows Phone users with no app to exchange selfies

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

December 22, 2014 | 2 min read

Windows Phone users no longer have access to Snapchat as Microsoft has removed allegedly insecure third-party services.

Third-party Snapchat apps became prominent on the mobile operating system as the selfie-snapping service failed to launch an official app on Windows phones despite them boasting the world’s third most-used smartphone platform.

Rudy Huyn, developer of Window’s previously widest-used Snapchat app, 6Snap, tweeted his determination to get the app back into the store in some form.

Twitter was abuzz with rumours that the move may pave the way to an official Snapchat app on the service. However, Huyn claimed Snapchat has no intention of expanding to Windows Phones.

Microsoft removed the apps after some of the lesser-secured Snapchat client apps were responsible for the leak of thousands of private images onto the net in October.

Just last week Snapchat founder Evan Siegel’s plans to introduce music videos to the platform in collaboration with Sony was leaked as part of the cyber-attack which saw movie ‘The Interview’ canned.

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