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"Popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is on fire, apparently. Today, the company shared that it had hit a new daily record with 4 billion outbound messages sent, and 6 billion messages received.\r\nRT @whatsapp: new daily record: 4B inbound, 6B outbound = 10B total messages a day! #freebsd #erlang\r\n\r\n\u2014 Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) August 23, 2012\r\n&amp;amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\nPositioning itself as a text replacement, WhatsApp offers features that you don't get with native texting apps and it seems like users are happy about it. The company says its not an &amp;quot;SMS killer&amp;quot; though, rather a drug to get people hooked on data plans. That alone should keep carriers happy.\r\n\r\nFor users without a cell phone, they can text on their iPod Touch with their own number that the app provides.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe app is $.99 on the App Store and has remained in the top paid apps section for quite some time.\r\n\r\nSee also:\u00A0Scam alert: Watch out for WhatsApp requests on Facebook"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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