Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: 500K users left WhatsApp when Facebook bought it Date: 23 Feb 2014 09:28:15 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net /Ps40gzXY5aS4SNiyOdIhQ22FD8J4DRsKJANTghbVCE1KIkCpL Cancel-Lock: sha1:vjOOW+Zm3g5Z2DK7Vft70anl5eA= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:756 On 2014-02-23, Fum wrote: >> Why would you think the numbers are made up? > Oh, I don't know... Maybe because that would mean almost 50% of all android > users are constantly using it. > Maybe because Google Play page lists the total number of installs as between > one hundred and five hundred million? > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp > I'm pretty sure they have half a billion installs, but active users? Not > a chance in hell. > >> 1) this is not an email > This is an e-mail. Please educate yourself on how usenet works. Bwahahahahah. I always love it when some luser climbs on his high horse and waves his tiny, tiny little dick about. Hey, luser, this is not an email. Usenet has nothing to do with email. This isn't even faintly related to email. The fact that you're using the same client for both is your problem, not ours. >> 2) the posting also lacks a proper signature delimiter > Stop being a rude and pretentious dork who nit-picks on things nobody cares > about. Same comment. I particularly like the self-contradictory nature of your comment, in that it is plain to anyone with a brain (i.e. not you) that someone *does* care about this. > >> 3) Your lame-ass virus bullshit isn't wanted here, nor is it needed. > Which I promptly disabled. I was not aware Avast adds this sort of crap to > the end of e-mails. This isn't an email. But I guess you got one thing right. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 54th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3180 "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"