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KakaoTalk

Communication — One of the world's most popular messengers — KakaoTalk is an easy, no-cost, multifaceted messagi…
Communicationest. 2018
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 47.6 · 2/4
47.6
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
40
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 40 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
40 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 40 probesavg response 3541 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
kakaocorp.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#68,048
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

KakaoTalk's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 47.6 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 9 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Linecommunicationcurated8.00.0— unverified
WhatsAppcommunicationcurated16.8+6.4— unverified
Messenger - High Quality Chat for Freecommunicationsimilar89%0.00.0■ inactive
WhatsApp Messengercommunicationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
The Tango appcommunicationsimilar80%49.50.0● live
WeChat 6.0 for iOScommunicationsimilar78%0.00.0■ inactive
TikTok Messenger - High Quality Chatcommunicationsimilar78%0.00.0■ inactive
Facebook Messenger Dayentertainmenttag-overlap78%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:12Z200kakaocorp.com3863alive
2026-08-26 09:42Z200kakaocorp.com7134alive
2026-08-19 14:03Z200kakaocorp.com2710alive
2026-08-11 00:38Z200kakaocorp.com2983alive
2026-08-08 06:31Z200kakaocorp.com3104alive
2026-08-05 18:51Z200kakaocorp.com3263alive
2026-07-30 18:05Z200kakaocorp.com2796alive
2026-07-23 09:26Z200kakaocorp.com3664alive
2026-07-22 09:29Z200kakaocorp.com3484alive
2026-07-21 09:31Z200kakaocorp.com3639alive
2026-07-20 09:58Z200kakaocorp.com3361alive
2026-07-19 09:09Z200kakaocorp.com3600alive
2026-07-18 08:50Z200kakaocorp.com2322alive
2026-07-17 09:12Z200kakaocorp.com3645alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · KakaoTalk · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/kakaotalk-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.