Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by davidcbc on Sunday November 05, 2017 @07:56AM (#15629177)

You're off considerably. The world population is only 7.6 billion, if every single person on the planet used the internet and 3% were using Linux to do so it would barely multiple hundreds of millions (228 million).

The actual number of users is closer to 3 billion, so even if your 3% is correct (it isn't) that's not even 100 million.

That's also assuming that every user of the internet is a laptop or desktop to access the internet, but that isn't case. More and more people are only using a smartphone or tablet, especially in emerging markets.

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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by jcelerier on Monday November 06, 2017 @10:22AM (#15636058)

> so even if your 3% is correct (it isn't)

The netmarketshare stats have been hovering around this for a few months, and all the "global internet usage" stats that I could find were closer to 3.75 billions.

Even then, assuming 3 billion, it's still 90 million users... that's most than the inhabitants of any country in the european union

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