WhatsApp has not become the "everything app" in the EU either?
People use it for chatting with people, groups of people, or businesses. Virtually no one uses the Status or Communities feature.
I have 289 people in my phone book right now, 1 of them occasionally posts on Status when on vacation. Of 25 people I quickly checked with, not one of them uses Communities.
I vaguely remember hearing that status updates are much more popular in other markets.
I could imagine the same for channels, as WhatsApp is zero-rated on many data plans in the developing world (as well as for in-flight Wi-Fi plans in more and more airlines!), which would make that an economical way of staying up to date on news.
People use it for chatting with people, groups of people, or businesses. Virtually no one uses the Status or Communities feature.
I have 289 people in my phone book right now, 1 of them occasionally posts on Status when on vacation. Of 25 people I quickly checked with, not one of them uses Communities.