Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD

Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat: "Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a ‘Snapchat-like’ application, a messaging app that allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar with the matter."

You can be sure that somewhere there is a small group of engineers who have a display monitoring all the perky photos running through a system like that. If you don't believe it, you've never met an engineer capable of building the backend for such a system.