New message: WhatsApp, which has 900 million users worldwide, said it would end its subscription fees over the next several weeks. — Reuters
LAGARTO, Brazil: Judge Marcel Montalvão joined some of Brazil's top politicians as one of the country's most-hated public figures when he ordered a 72-hour shutdown of WhatsApp this week, abruptly cutting off the messaging service for some 100 million users.
But none of the young women staring at their cellphones and tapping away on the now-restored WhatsApp in a patch of shade outside Montalvão's courthouse in the small city of Lagarto were among the haters.
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