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WhatsApp Umumkan Peraihan 400 Juta Pengguna Aktif

Aplikasi mobile messaging populer WhatsApp mengumumkan telah meraih jumlah pengguna aktif hingga mencapai angka milestone 400 juta. Dengan perolehan kali ini penyebaran WhatsApp kian tak terbendung dalam persaingannya dengan kompetitor lain. WhatsApp adalah platform mobile messaging yang menurut survei On Device paling populer di Indonesia. Continue reading WhatsApp Umumkan Peraihan 400 Juta Pengguna Aktif

27 Billion WhatsApp Messages Exchanged Through Indonesia is a Ridiculous Number, Not to Mention Wrong

This morning The Jakarta Post published a story based on an interview with WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum and vice president of business Neeraj Arora conducted over email. Having had our own interview with Arora last year, this morning’s story on seems quite familiar and even some of the statements sounded like they’ve been made before with some added references to more recent developments. The big story from the interview seems to be a claim attributed to Arora that WhatsApp handles 27 billion messages in and out of Indonesia. That number sounded very familiar to us.

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