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Snapchat turns your friendship hierarchy into a living, dynamic cosmos. You are the Sun, and your top 8 contacts orbit you as planets based on your reciprocal communication.
In Snapchat’s Friend Solar System, you are the Sun ☀️ at the center. Your 8 closest best friends orbit you based on reciprocal snap and chat frequency.
You are this person's #1 most contacted friend on Snapchat. You exchange the highest volume of two-way Snaps and active chats.
When viewing your Friendship Profile from someone else’s perspective with Snapchat+, their Bitmoji serves as the blazing Sun ☀️ at the center of their universe. If you are one of their 8 closest friends on the app, you will be placed into an orbital path representing your rank.
The distance of each planet from the Sun directly mirrors their interaction score relative to all other friends:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets feature orbiting heart emojis (red, pastel, or purple/blue) indicating active, daily emotional bonds.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These outer rim planets have stars or plain surfaces with no hearts, indicating casual or less frequent chats.
The Snapchat algorithm recalculates friendship ranks on a rolling basis (updating every 24 to 48 hours). The primary metrics that determine orbit positioning include:
Enter real weekly Snap activity to estimate planet ranks — or identify a badge you already see.
Snapchat does not publish exact math. Our model mirrors the documented signals: planets are relative ranks among your top 8 — Mercury is whoever has the highest affinity score, not a fixed threshold alone.
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