[cl289]

Just to clarify as a non-user: there's an online status, and a 'last seen' data point, and both can be queried by any user for any user given their telephone number, as often as the querying party likes? And the online status is when the app is open on the phone?

[itsyogesh]

AFAIK If you have them in your contacts and they haven't blocked you, you can access both those data points. If they have disabled last seen, you can still get the the 'online' and 'typing' status.