If you want weather news and/or official updates, tweets might be better. If you want video from thousands of people sharing their experience, there is no comparison.
I read your comment, opened snapchat, pinch&zoomed in-an-out everywhere. I couldn't find the map. I'm more than 30. I'm putting down my phone and reading a book.
I'm 22 and also tech savvy, but I find it quite simple to use.
I think the target users are those that have pinch-to-zoom interfaces as kids (the today's teens), so the UX is meant to be "cool" instead of intuitive.
Another thing I've seen quite a lot is that you need to invest some time and have lots of friends already using the platform to know about the hidden gems, which I think the app itself promotes that behavior of friends sharing their knowledge instead of easy to use UI (not saying I think it's a good thing)
too bad I can't open Snapchat on my Nexus 5x without Android killing every other process to make room for your shoddy app's absurd memory requirements which still fail to provide enough performance to even allow swiping between activities smoothly
I saw this live at the hackathon today! Very impressed that you got it all integrated and deployed and on the front page of hacker news before judging.
Best coverage is on Snap Map. Zoom to the Keys and the west coast of Florida and check out the first hand accounts.