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JUST IN CASE there was any doubt over WhatsApp’s popularity, the app announced it had its most successful day yesterday with 64 billion messages sent during April Fools Day (For anyone confused, the reason why outbound messages is much larger than inbound is because it includes sending the same message to groups).
WhatsApp Inc. / Twitternew daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) April 2, 2014
The app, which currently has more than 465 million users – 320 million of which are daily active users – has been steadily growing since Facebook announced it would be purchasing the app.
But it’s not the only messaging app to experience its own records. One of its main rivals, Line, announced it passed the 400 million registered user mark yesterday, having only crossed the 300 million mark back in November.
The makers say the amount of daily new users has reached 1.7 million per day, and the number of countries with over 10 million registered users rose to 10, including the US, Korea, Mexico and Malaysia.
As for messages, it’s set its own records for most chat messages sent (10 billion per day), sticker messages (1.8 billion per day) and phone calls made (over 12 billion per day). However, it didn’t reveal how many of those 400 million are active users.
And finally, Telegram, an app that also benefited from WhatsApp’s deal with Facebook, announced a few days ago that it now has 35 million monthly active users, while the last announcement from Viber showed it had 280 million registered users – 100 million monthly active users.
Telegram Messenger / TwitterTelegram has crossed a new mark – 35 million users.
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) March 24, 2014
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Quinton, is that a snapshot of your phone on front page? What’s Grindr?
I presume it’s an app that connects strangers who want to grind different types of coffee together and never meet again.
Its where daddy meets some of his friends to have wrestling matches.
Plenty of fish is the best app ever… Text birds without them ever knowing your number or anything about ya really and block them with one touch of a button when they wreck your head. Definitely a lad who invented that thing haha.
“Text birds without them ever knowing your number or anything about you”
Animal, you seem like a nice level headed chap who is in no way a sociopath. Any mother would be proud to have you escort their daughter out of an evening.
Lol.
It’s a gay dating app
Haha yes I just took a look and it seems everyone on it is going on about NSA so i guess it’s an American security thing , no wonder snowden blew the whistle on them , all very odd
‘Dating’.
Viber was also down all over the world so many used it as an alternative.
Might have something to do with viber being down yesterday aswell
Only because Viber was down for a few hours
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the reliability of Whatsapp has dropped since Facebook bought it? Not a day goes by now that I’m not waiting on the “Connecting…” message to clear to send or receive messages.
Maybe the servers just can’t handle the increased traffic brought on from the Facebook acquisition.
What’s an app?
Does anyone know any good sites that has ringtone codes for a Nokia 3210?
Check out crazy frog, you’ll love it!!!!!
That’s polyphonic, 3210 is monophonic.. JESUS
Well viber wasnt working right yday so had no choice but to use whats app… as im sure was the case for a few more people.
4 years using it and it’s been fantastic. Happy to pay in 4 months when my free trial runs out. I use it because everyone else does.
WhatsApp is good, but the interface is awful. I prefer viber. Definitely a nicer user experience…
Check out firechat it feels like a giant chat room using the multi peer tech that seems to be underused.
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