Bitchat’s rise in France puts an offline messaging app atop social chart

Bitchat’s rise in France put an app that can work without internet access at the top of the French App Store’s Social Networking chart, amid nationwide protests on October 17 and a nearly ten-hour mobile outage on October 21. The peer-to-peer messaging app created by Jack Dorsey , Twitter co-founder and Block CEO, also reached the store’s top ten free apps across all categories. Key takeaways Bitchat topped France’s social networking chart amid protests and mobile disruption. Nearby phones can relay Bitchat messages through Bluetooth without internet access. French officials discussed targeted platform suspensions, subject to legal limits.

Source: The Cryptonomist