(Manisha Mahar, Intern Journalist); Every day about 100 billion messages are being sent to the instant messaging app WhatsApp (WhatsApp). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given this information. The figure of 100 messages a day was surpassed by WhatsApp on the eve of New Year (2020).
Releasing the quarterly report, Mark Zuckerberg stated that around 2.5 billion people around the world are using one or more of Facebook’s apps in one form or another, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Facebook Messenger. The number of advertisers on all these platforms has also increased to 10 million. Most messages are sent through WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve. 63 billion messages were sent to WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve in the year 2017. After that, 75 billion messages were sent in 2018 and 100 billion in 2019. Now 100 billion messages are being sent every day. In such a situation, WhatsApp has become an instant multimedia messaging app delivering the most messages to any app.
In such a situation, WhatsApp has become an instant multimedia messaging app delivering the most messages to any app. In January this year, the number of Android users of WhatsApp crossed the five billion mark, and with this WhatsApp has become the most downloaded non-Google app.