Can you guess how many messages people send every day on the world’s most popular messaging app, WhatsApp?
It won’t be easy to answer as no messaging app has been able to achieve this milestone till now.
Yes, WhatsApp has set a new milestone in the world of messaging, which also indicates that the Facebook-owned app has truly done away with SMS.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, said during the company’s quarterly report in the past few days that users on WhatsApp are now sending a hundred billion or say a trillion messages every day.
If you don’t know, know that the first hundred billion mark was crossed by this app on the last day of the last year/first day of the new year i.e. the beginning of the new year.
In fact, WhatsApp currently has no competition from any messaging app including Facebook Messenger.
It is not clear how many messages are exchanged daily in Facebook Messenger, but in 2016 the company said that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp together exchange 60 billion messages per day.
In May of this year, Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook said that the use of iMessage and Facebook Tom has increased to a record, but the statistics were not released.
But the last time these figures came out, Apple’s services were lagging behind WhatsApp, with even China’s WeChat, which has more than a billion users, lagging behind WhatsApp in terms of daily messages.
At the beginning of 2014, the then chief executive of WhatsApp, John Koum, said in an event that 50 billion messages are sent daily in this messaging app.
At that time the number of WhatsApp users was around 50 crore and now it is more than 2 billion, while no other smartphone app including Facebook’s other apps can compete with it in popularity.
Will Cathcart, the current head of WhatsApp, said in a tweet, “This year we all relied heavily on messaging for our loved ones and business.”
He said that we are proud that WhatsApp has been able to send 100 billion messages per day and we are hopeful of going further.
WhatsApp was first introduced in 2009 and was bought by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014.
In February 2016, the number of monthly users of WhatsApp crossed one billion, while in July 2017, one billion users started using this messaging application daily.
In February 2020, when the number of WhatsApp users was last disclosed, it was more than 2 billion and it is likely to surpass Facebook in the near future.
Earlier, Facebook reached two and a half billion users in 2017, while YouTube hit the milestone in May 2019.
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2024-07-15 06:43:35
