Number of LINE users in Thailand passes 10 million

By Digital Media

BANGKOK, Dec 12 - Tech-frenzy Thailand has up to 10.2 million LINE users, an increase of 1,150 per cent in just one year. This intriguing number, a large chunk of the total 85 million users worldwide, has grown rapidly.

Lee Jin-woo, LINE Business Office senior manager of NHN Corp.and overseeing busineses in Thailand, stated that most Thai users enjoy sending stickers to other users as a way to express emotions and communicate through smart-phone devices.

Users in Thailand are active purchasers of Line stickers, while at the same time also enjoying the free selections of stickers available on the hit-application.

More important, alongside its conveniences in communication, LINE has also joined with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in launching a special sticker collection that promotes Thailand's tourism wonders.

Similar stickers will also showcase destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

By 2013, LINE will officially launch up to 10 more applications for all users to enjoy. Without doubt, it has become an aspiring means for the public to communicate and express thoughts, he said. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-12-12

I must be getting old. I have NO idea what this is about.

they have leveraged on the short comings of bb messenger, what's app, kakao, kik, skype, msn, yahoo messenger and palringo.

they offer instant messaging for all devices and all stationary machines with purchaseable sticker sets ( funny emojis ) and cross-promoted extra apps such as games that you play against your friends. they did basically what windows messenger was trying to do years ago - right - and on mobile, where the purchasing power is just one tap away.

they have leveraged on the short comings of bb messenger, what's app, kakao, kik, skype, msn, yahoo messenger and palringo.

they offer instant messaging for all devices and all stationary machines with purchaseable sticker sets ( funny emojis ) and cross-promoted extra apps such as games that you play against your friends. they did basically what windows messenger was trying to do years ago - right - and on mobile, where the purchasing power is just one tap away.

Thanks for the info. More here:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/technology/LINE-introduces-its-official-free-camera-app-that--30180089.html

I often wondered how people added decorations to their snapshots on various social media web sites.

These more graphically oriented instant messaging apps are popular in Asia where expressing/communicating thoughts, feelings, ideas, emotions can be complex using standard written text forms. In Korea, Kakao Talk transmits more than 1 billion messages per day. Line is popular in Japan, as is Nimbuzz in India and WeChat in China.

Line messenger has more or less entirely replaced all messenger apps I have used in the past. I love the same chat history on phone and computer. Just cannot get a grip how someone is willing to spend money on those silly stickers. I actually never figured out what the meaning of most of those stickers is supposed to be...

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