During the quarterly earnings call, Zuckerberg shared that 2.5 billion (250 crore) people around the world use one or more Facebook apps every day and 10 million (1 crore) use the services offered by the company. There are more than 100 active advertisers. New Year’s Eve is the day when WhatsApp usually sees a huge surge in message exchanges, and it has been so for the past several years. In 2017, WhatsApp sent 63 billion messages on New Year’s Eve, followed by 75 billion in 2018 and more than 100 billion last year. Now, approximately 100 billion (100 billion) messages are delivered every day.
With this number, no other messaging service is even close to WhatsApp. The reason for this is the growing userbase of the app, which crossed the 2 billion (200 crore) mark earlier this year. According to a report by Statista, WhatsApp reached five billion downloads on Android in January this year, making it only the second non-Google app to reach this huge figure.
To make the app more user friendly, WhatsApp has been adding new features from time to time and work is still underway on many new features. It recently gave users the “Always Mute” feature, through which users have the ability to mute chat alerts forever. This feature has brought a sigh of relief for many users.
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