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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by bad_user on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:45AM (#7269687)
In Romania many acquaintances used it, but most of them have switched to Facebook's messenger. As I was saying in another comment, if I open my WhatsApp right now, most of the people listed as being on WhatsApp have probably uninstalled it, so there's a very real possibility that messages won't ever reach their target, whereas the new Facebook Messenger for Android is catching on like fire.

In my opinion, this is probably the dumbest acquisition I've ever seen.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by eyko on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:55PM (#7287290)
When they say "450 million monthly active users worldwide and over 320 million daily active users", it's probably safe to assume that they have discarded inactive users. That's also depending on what their definition of inactive means (e.g. have not used whatsapp in 3 months?)
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