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Title: WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users
Post by: rcjordan on January 21, 2014, 02:47:43 AM

and that's up 30 Million in a month

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/20/whatsapp-dld/

Title: Re: WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users
Post by: Brad on January 21, 2014, 01:32:16 PM

I get the no ads bit, but from a functionality standpoint what makes this better than:

1. SMS
2. Yahoo messenger and the like.

Title: Re: WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users
Post by: Adam C on January 21, 2014, 02:59:26 PM

Group discussions

No unit charge for messaging, just tiny amounts of data usage

Title: Re: WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users
Post by: Brad on January 21, 2014, 03:27:24 PM

Quote from: Adam C on January 21, 2014, 02:59:26 PM
Group discussions

No unit charge for messaging, just tiny amounts of data usage

Thanks.

Last night I had two conversations going at the same time, one on SMS and another on FB messaging and it was driving me nuts.

Title: Re: WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users
Post by: rcjordan on November 18, 2014, 03:36:06 PM

Tech news says whatapp is rolling out end-to-end encryption.

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