Line Messaging App Hits 100 Million Users Outpacing Facebook
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Line, an instant messaging app run by the owner of South Korea’s biggest Internet search engine, registered 100 million users since the start of operations in June 2011, almost triple the pace of growth for Facebook.
Subscribers to the service, which allows users to customize messages with graphic images called “stickers”, send photos and make free calls, climbed from about 11 million in December 2011, operator NHN Corp. said in a statement on its website Jan.