{"id":2871,"date":"2014-02-22T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2014-02-22T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:00:36","slug":"time-spent-on-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/22\/time-spent-on-pr","title":{"rendered":"Time spent on PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/02\/21\/how-whatsapps-arora-sealed-facebook-deal\/\">How WhatsApp\u2019s Arora Sealed Facebook Deal &#8211; Digits &#8211; WSJ<\/a>: Time spent on PR is time not spent \u2018making your users happy,\u2019 Arora said. \u2018The users you get from press and hype are not the best users.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Time%20spent%20on%20PR&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2014%2F02%2F22%2Ftime-spent-on-pr&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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