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No, the second half of the headline is "38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA."
by josefresco 6y ago
No, the second half of the headline is "38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA."
- fernandotakai 6y agotons of people in LA/SA are moving to telegram from whatsapp due to the whole facebook debacle.
- danielrpa 6y agoThat's what I'm also observing. I'm having to actively raise awareness of Signal to my LA friends, because they are largely going to Telegram by default.
- jandrese 6y agoSo what's going on in the world that's driving the surge in signups? Hopefully not US political nonsense. I also really hope it's not intelligence agencies rushing to make new accounts to move their disinformation campaigns to new platforms.
- tw04 6y agoFacebook ruining whatsapp: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-privacy-policy-data-sharing-facebook/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-privacy-policy...
- ayewo 6y agoLooks like you missed the massive discussion regarding Whatsapp’s ultimatum to everyone if they want to continue using their service for free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215
- jandrese 6y agoYep that will do it. If I used Whatsapp that would make me want to switch too. Jan 6 was not a good day to announce such a policy shift. It got drowned out by world (well, US) events.