Thread: Whatsapp replacement

15 billions for some silly app,

Facebook has too much money and little sense,

definitely another Internet 2.0 bubble,

In Korea Kakao (or whatever it's called) is very popular!

I've got it but never set it up or done anything with it.

Originally Posted by Koojo

Wechat is the replacement app of choice with everyone I know.

Some users of the popular Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo say they believe WhatsApp is "clearly an outdated product" with an "ugly and simplistic interface." It's not just that WhatsApp experienced a 210-minute outage on Feb. 23. Chinese also have a better option at their fingertips: WeChat, or Weixin in Chinese, the mobile messaging app that Chinese Internet behemoth Tencent launched in 2011. Compared with WeChat, which had an estimated 313 million users by December, WhatsApp is "totally not as fun and user-friendly," wrote one poster on Weibo.

I don't think whatsapp was mainly bought for the messaging system , I would think facebook would be rubbing their hands with glee in anticipation of being able to tie phone numbers to people profiles - and it was only 4 billion in cash - with the rest being facebook shares

Tor, the team behind the world’s leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client, according to documents produced at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland.

The Tor Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB) is set to work with the open-source InstantBird messenger client in experimental builds released to the public by March 31, 2014. The developers aim to build in encrypted off-the-record chatting and then bundle the client with the general Tor Launcher in the following months.

The Daily Dot - Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger

Originally Posted by Butterfly

15 billions for some silly app,

Facebook has too much money and little sense,

definitely another Internet 2.0 bubble,

Another way to get 500 millions telephone numbers in one time ?

Originally Posted by stickmansucks

Originally Posted by Butterfly

15 billions for some silly app,

Facebook has too much money and little sense,

definitely another Internet 2.0 bubble,

Another way to get 500 millions telephone numbers in one time ?

Feck that:

On June 13, 2013, WhatsApp announced that they had reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages.

Imagine putting an ad in each one of those?