Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Becomes France's Top Social App Amid Riots and Mobile Network Outage
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Downloaded more than a million times, Bitchat messaging has been a real success in France for a few weeks. If the network wants to be secure, little information has yet been provided.
On Wednesday, 21 October, Alban Mikoczy receives Josephine Boone, a journalist specializing in AI in Échos, who is interested in the Bichat app, which is very popular with the demonstrators. A sequence to be found in the show "To follow with Loïc de la Mornais", broadcast between 8:30 pm and 11 pm on the news channel, channel 16.
In the middle of high school mobilization and for purchasing power in France, Bitchat mesh ranked #1, Thursday, applications on the App Store in the social media category. Launched in July 2025 by the Twitter co-founder, this decentralized messaging works with Bluetooth and without the Internet. Practical when the network is saturated, as can happen in a demonstration.
Bichat, Jack Dorsey's Internetless messaging, has been number one in France since the network shutdown was mentioned. What it really bypasses, and what it does not protect.
Launched in July 2025 by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and head of Block, Bitchat has been particularly successful in France. On 22 October, this decentralized messaging took first place in the "Social Networks" category of the French App Store, ahead of Telegram and Signal, and was one of the top ten free apps in the [...] Read more Bitchat article #1 of social networks on the App Store in France appeared first on bitcoin.fr.
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