Evan Spiegal, the chief executive officer of Snap Inc., the parent company of ephemeral social media platform Snapchat, has found himself in the eye of a storm and at the receiving end of Indian Twitterati’s ire after reportedly saying Snapchat was not for ‘poor countries like India’.

It was during the September 11, 2015 presentation when Spiegal allegedly made the comments that have so irked Indians on Twitter.
After going through the presentation on Pompliano’s findings, Spiegal is said to have commented, “Yeah I read those, it doesn’t matter.”
Pompliano says he then brought up Snapchat’s poor showing in Spain and India, both countries with high mobile penetration.
Responding to this, Spiegal allegedly said he was not interested in expanding “into poor countries like India and Spain”, before storming out of the meeting.
A few days later, Pompliano says Snapchat fired him. He also alleges that Snap Inc. executives made disparaging comments about him to prospective employers.
Snap Inc. has labelled Pompliano a “disgruntled employee fired for poor performance” and who filed the lawsuit for publicity.

Fun Fact: When Indians send nudes on Snapchat…it's not becuase it's sexy…it's because we are too poor to afford clothes.

— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) April 15, 2017

RT If You're So Poor That U Never Ever Needed That Dumb App With Dog & Puppy Filters On Your Precious Cell Phone#Snapchat #BoycottSnapchat pic.twitter.com/tYZGIcgfVD

— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) April 15, 2017

When someone asks me my Snapchat ID. pic.twitter.com/Ymefa4IPh6

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 15, 2017

Snapchat CEO must have seen this image with a filter. pic.twitter.com/1Tabg2gWtZ

— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) April 15, 2017

Tanmay However tweeted in support of Snapchat CEO:

I actually get why Snapchat doesn't wanna expand in india, donno why people are offended.

— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) April 15, 2017

B) we are not very rich why are we pretending otherwise it's okay we aren't rich right now but we work hard and we'll get there! pic.twitter.com/r0cNqijlJQ

— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) April 15, 2017