WhatsApp reaches 18 billion messages on New Year's Eve
No one should be surprised that WhatsApp has been one of the most used means this Christmas to congratulate the holidays And its use continues to increase among users of all platforms. What is truly amazing is the new milestone reached last day December 31, the holiday ofNochevieja And it is that during that day WhatsApp registered a total of 18.000 million messages between received and sent throughout the world. A figure that only demonstrates the power and positioning of this messaging tool.
The data has been provided through a message on the account of the social network Twitter of the company itself. In said tweet they break down this figure into messages incoming, about 11 billion, and outbound, 7 billion Which makes the total of 18 million This count should not be misleading, because the difference between incoming and outgoing has to do with the group conversations, where a single message sent can be received by a large number of contacts.
The rise of this application is detrimental to the already classic SMS text messages A function that is past 2012 celebrated its 20th anniversary and whose use has been decreasing since the arrival of WhatsApp and other communication applications thatdo not involve an additional cost In fact, according to Europa Press, Movistar claims to have reduced a 44% SMS message traffic compared to last year, although a total of 19 million messages were sent and 31 million messages were receivedA downward trend that is repeated in the rest of the companies with 53% and 36% in Vodafone and Orange, respectively.
What is to be appreciated is that the messaging system of WhatsApp has endured during these dates stable and without service outages And it is that such message traffic has had to test the infrastructures of the company itself and of the telephone operators Thus, compared to the drop in the use of SMS messages, there has been a quite notable increase in data traffic of the Internet And it is that images and videos by way of congratulations have been one of the most used resources to remind us of human beings loved ones and look good, even if unoriginal, with family and friends.
But, as we said, it seems that this time they were prepared for such a wave of messages. No service outages, no message delivery problems, this Christmas WhatsApp you can stick out your chest by preventing millions of people from suffering any of these problems to which we are more or less accustomed, but which would have been disastrous at this time Even more since that LINE has made an appearance, presenting itself as a worthy rival in the field of instant and free messages
We will remain attentive to the next achievements of this communication tool that gives so much to talk about, whether for something good or for something bad. And you, have you congratulated these holidays through WhatsApp?
