I was wondering about that, too. I straight up asked my students here in Japan (College, 1st year) what apps they couldn't live without, and it was almost completely YouTube, Line, and TikTok.
I've never even heard of Zenly... nor seen it in the wild.
“Class, today we are going to talk about how you can’t believe everything you read on the internet”.
I used Similiarweb.com to look up the top free social networking apps on Apple App Store in Japan:
- 1 LINE app
- 2 Discord
- 3 zenly
- 4 Mirrativ（ミラティブ）ゲーム配信のライブ配信アプリ
- 5 ＋メッセージ（プラスメッセージ）
- 6 Pairs(ペアーズ) 恋活・婚活のためのマッチングアプリ
- 7 Facebook
https://www.similarweb.com/apps/top/apple/store-rank/jp/soci...
I think this is a ranking of new installs and not existing installs tho?
Re:Snap lays off 20% of employees
by karmasimida on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:21PM
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Exactly Line is like whatsapp and Zenly? Never heard any Japanese people mentions it or listed it along side their Line account
Apparently it was popular among middle & high schoolers back in 2018, but probably not among adults
https://twitter.com/livedoornews/status/1068834535838633986?...
Re:Snap lays off 20% of employees
by karmasimida on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:31PM
(#32669701)
right, also 2018 is already 4 years ago.
How is that possible? A lot of people in Japan use Line (86M MAU in 2020). With 40M MAUs in the entire world, Zenly is much smaller than Line. Anecdotally, I've seen young people in Japan using Snap. Haven't seen any Zenly.