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WhatsApp Reaches 100 Million Monthly Users in the United States (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 3 months ago by fer0n to c/apple_enthusiast

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The achievement, announced in an official blog post, indicates a potential shift in the American messaging landscape, where WhatsApp has steadily gained ground despite the longstanding popularity of Apple's iMessage. The Meta-owned messaging app is extremely popular in Europe owing to its cross-platform compatibility.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The only reason I have whatsapp is because my neighborhood group chat uses it. I wish everyone moved to Signal.

[–] Ghostalmedia 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can’t believe how hard Nextdoor royally fucked up their ability to be communication for a local block.

My “neighborhood” feed is basically rage posts from senior citizens across my 1.6 million person county. I never ever see posts or comments from the people within my 2 to 4 block radius.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah to be fair my neighborhood’s whatsapp group is still better than nextdoor because it really is contained to the neighborhood only, and so far no karens. Chats are mostly about people giving away extra food, reporting pets that have gotten loose and seen roaming around, and my favorite: everyone united on complaining about the HOA and working together to get those brought up to the board.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason, with the few people in my bubble who have installed Signal, we are sometimes missing notifications which never happens on Whatsapp. So you never know when the other end actually sees the message. That is a turnoff for most people and honestly for me too.

[–] bradboimler 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See Don't kill my app! if you or the other affected people use Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It happens both on Android and iOS