Any references for this? I've been using Whatsapp for years and never saw them do this. I've spammed people, in person mostly, to install it back when Whatsapp wasn't ubiquitous where I lived yet, but that's it. I assume that's not what you meant.
it shows (or used to, or maybe it's an entirely different app. i only check them out in a sandbox at time of launch) all your contacts as "offline" and when you messaged them it sent out a sms or something else they would get hold of from the contact list your just gladly provided them and it appeared as a message from you asking them to install it.
Any references for this? I've been using Whatsapp for years and never saw them do this. I've spammed people, in person mostly, to install it back when Whatsapp wasn't ubiquitous where I lived yet, but that's it. I assume that's not what you meant.