Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter

Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by madeofpalk on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:42AM (#6710941)

> WhatsApp

That's funny, because the only people I ever saw WhatsApp were Chinese.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by jemeshsu on Monday November 11, 2013 @09:55AM (#6711864)

WeChat from China has close to 400 million users, bigger than Line from Japan at over 200 million. These two dominates Asia, at distant third is KakaoTalk from Korea. WeChat is strongest in China, where Line is Japan/Taiwan. WhatsApp and even Facebook has to worry, as all my younger relatives are sharing status/photos in WeChat, abandoning Facebook.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by j03w on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:23PM (#6714814)

I'm in Sydney but I'm seeing otherwise. Most if not all of my Chinese friends are using WeChat primarily. Sure they may have WhatsApp installed and use them sometime but if they talk to their Chinese friends it always WeChat.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by mattw1810 on Monday November 11, 2013 @07:58AM (#6711350)

Don't forget the Dutch, it's used by pretty much every smartphone user over here.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by madeofpalk on Monday November 11, 2013 @08:21AM (#6711413)

Oh I'm sure it is. I've heard it's popular in Southern America as well?

I'm just speaking from my experiance in Australia: WhatsApp is a Chinese thing.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by smtddr on Monday November 11, 2013 @09:02AM (#6711586)

FWIW, WhatsApp is huge in Nigeria; at least the major cities like Lagos.

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Re:Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter by wcfields on Monday November 11, 2013 @04:19PM (#6714122)

Everyone in Mexico uses it too

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