" the mobile messaging service was now accessed by 800 million chimps worldwide each month."
So by the law of averages the chimps should be well on the way to randomly completing Shakespeare's works by now?
The CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp claimed on Friday that the mobile messaging service was now accessed by 800 million chumps worldwide each month. CEO Jan Koum said in a brief Facebook post that WhatsApp was "now serving 800,000,000 monthly active users." He added that "active and registered users are not the same thing". …
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I don't get the negativity here. WhatsApp is an extremely useful messaging app for those people who need (or simply want) to communicate with others who live in places where data connectivity works differently (often less effectively and/or more expensively) than in their own neighbourhood.
As an example, I have several clients with whom WhatsApp makes timely communication possible and straightforward, and a far better choice than email. Clearly YMMV with WhatsApp, but just because it's part of the Zuckerburg empire doesn't automatically mean that everyone who uses it is bereft of all intellect.
I use (in order of amount of use);-
Viber
FB Messenger
Skype
Line
Chaton
and sometimes Tango
I wish i could standardise on one of them (and that tends to happen a little geographically) but every one uses something different and I become a registered and active user who shows in metrics for most of the chat apps. But they can never count exclusive users... they are more likely to pay.
"With multiple messaging/chat protocols, time to aggregate under on tool ...... Blackberry Hub"
With considerable reluctance I'm moving from BB to Android - because I'm no longer a corporate user and I'm not sure about ongoing support. But the Hub is something that Google need to steal. They've now got all the best bits of webOS, so much that I hardly miss it any more, might as well go the whole hog.