{"id":648096,"date":"2013-03-21T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=389018"},"modified":"2013-03-21T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:50:14","slug":"whatsapp-dominates-download-charts-but-it-may-have-a-hidden-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648096","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp dominates download charts, but it may have a hidden weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/21\/whatsapp-market-share-messaging-apps-389018\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/whatsapp-iphone.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=435&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"WhatsApp Market Share\" title=\"WhatsApp iPhone\" \/><\/a><\/center>WhatsApp has reigned as the undisputed messaging app champion across dozens of countries over the past two years. However, huge download volumes in all these countries doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to high consumer engagement. A research firm called Mobidia has provided BGR with a fascinating comparison chart providing a direct engagement level comparison between <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/whatsapp\">WhatsApp<\/a> and its major rivals in some of the biggest mobile markets. Mobidia chose a cut-off-point of 2 MB per month to make sure it is counting only consumers who truly use a messaging app actively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/21\/whatsapp-market-share-messaging-apps-389018\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/P37qEELwSM0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has reigned as the undisputed messaging app champion across dozens of countries over the past two years. However, huge download volumes in all these countries doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to high consumer engagement. A research firm called Mobidia has provided BGR with a fascinating comparison chart providing a direct engagement level comparison between WhatsApp and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}