I still remember Christmas 2004. During that year, sending SMS became fashionable. You could not send images, you could only send a text message from your mobile to another phone. Only words. No photos, no memes, no animated Gifs.
I remember that the evening of December 31 was crazy. Dozens of congratulations, some more serious than others, and many repeated, did not stop entering my Nokia. This end of the year, with the same idea, but with other much more sophisticated tools, we have congratulated ourselves on the new 2020 by WhatsApp more than 100.000 million times around the world.
Without a doubt WhatsApp is the most used messaging application in the world. It is certainly not the best, nor the most modern and complete, but it is the most popular. Neither Messages, nor Telegram, nor Facebook Messenger, nor WeChat….
Mark Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp in 2016 for a value of 22.000 million dollars, and it was a safe bet on a winning horse. The company has published the figures of the messages transmitted on December 31, 2019. One hundred billion messages worldwide in a single day. A real outrage.
It helps a lot to raise that figure popular that is this app in India. More than twenty billion, one fifth of the total, they were shipped in that country. In the same press release, it is also stated that more than 12 billion were images.
Most likely, the use of WhatsApp in 2020 will continue to increase, as the arrival of many new functions is expected that will further enhance the use of this application. These new improvements that are expected for this year are the use of WhatsApp on different devices with the same account, a native application for iPad, Macs and Apple Watch, sharing your profile with a QR code, a dark mode, messages that self-destruct, etc. . Functions already well known to Telegram users.
