• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    How many are actually people though. You’re telling me over 1/8th the population is active users I just don’t believe that. If you told me a billion active bots, that I’d believe.

    • argarath@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Pretty much every Brazilian uses whatsapp, the rest of south America also uses it but I can’t guarantee it being that close to 100% like Brasil, then you have places like the EU, Asia (not in China, they have WeChat iirc) and I’d be surprised if it isn’t advice 1 billion people. Whatsapp didn’t take over the USA because you guys had sms for free, while most of the world didn’t, and after you hit a certain critical mass of users, even those who don’t want to (me) have to use it for work, friends and family. Everyone lives in their own bubbles, and the US has SEVERAL bubbles completely different from the rest of the world

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      13 hours ago

      I know that big numbers are hard to imagine.

      And I know that imagining people other than yourself is hard.

      Doesn’t mean they don’t exist