Whopping 63 billion WhatsApp messages were sent on New Year's eve
New Year's eve saw people sending a total of whopping 63 billion WhatsApp messages, according to Facebook, which owns the mobile messaging service. Of the total, nearly 14 billion messages were sent in India alone.
While images constituted around 8 billion messages, nearly 2.5 billion WhatsApp messages were videos, a WhatsApp spokesperson revealed.
The 63 billion figure assumes significance given that back in April 2016 it was revealed that both Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp combined were sending 60 billion messages each day. WhatsApp alone was responsible for 30 billion messages a day back in January 2016 - that figure jumped to 42 billion in February.
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- Julliard
- 08 Jan 2017
- tu6
The count is from your network usage. Go to setting>data usage>network usage. You can see the number of messages you received and sent. The number of images, videos, and others too. No one is spying on you. Overeacting much. Typical tech illite...
- Anonymous
- 08 Jan 2017
- PSv
The last time that I received a message from a friend them says goodbye.
- AnonD-605106
- 08 Jan 2017
- K8%
SMS is gang banged silly...
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