WhatsApp touches record daily high: 64 bn messages in 1 day
WhatsApp is estimated to have 30-35 million purely mobile users in India-a number that will now be coupled with the more than 100 million users of Facebook. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint
Mumbai: World's largest messaging app company, WhatsApp Inc., said it has reached a new daily record of handling 64 billion messages in a span of 24 hours.
The company on Wednesday said on its website that about 20 billion messages were sent (inbound) and 44 billion messages received (outbound) by its users, greater than the 54 billion messages that were exchanged on the app during New Year's eve.
also witnessed a temporary disruption in service with users across the world taking to the microblogging site Twitter Inc., complaining about the disruption. It had earlier experienced trouble with its servers on 8 December.
Manasi Yadav, senior market analyst at International Data Corporation (India), or IDC (India), attributed the disruption of services of WhatApp 'for sometime today' to its growing popularity after the announcement of its acquisition by Facebook Inc. On 20 February, Facebook-the world's largest social networking site-said it will buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.
'A lot of people who did not know about WhatsApp are now using it. People have been critical about the acquisition as they thought that ads would increase and it would not be a free software. However, I think it has been a positive with the number of users (of WhatsApp) going up because of which it could not take the load today and slowed down,' said Yadav.
WhatsApp is estimated to have 30-35 million purely mobile users in India-a number that will now be coupled with the more than 100 million users of Facebook, of which an estimated 40% access the social network on mobile devices.
As of 31 December 2013, Facebook had 93 million users in India who accessed the world's largest social networking site at least once a month and 31 million mobile users who visited the site daily, according to the numbers provided during the company's December quarter results.
Globally, Facebook had 757 million daily active users on average as of 31 December 2013 while 945 million users visited the site at least once a month on their mobiles as of the same date. WhatsApp claims to have 450 million users globally.
WhatsApp's rivals, both globally and in India, include Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd 's (known as Weixin in Mandarin) that claims 270 million active users, and Japan's LINE that recently crossed the 300 million registered account mark (not all are active users).
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