WhatsApp users sent over a record-breaking 75 billion messages worldwide to telephone commutation greetings on New Year's Eve, the Facebook-owned fellowship said on Th (January 4). Among them, xiii billion messages were image-based in addition to 5 billion were videos. In Republic of Republic of India alone, the 200 meg monthly active users on WhatsApp sent over twenty billion messages on New Year’s Eve.
WhatsApp says this is the highest-ever user activeness on a unmarried day. The platform has over 1 billion users worldwide.
The messages were sent betwixt 12 am till 11.59 pm IST on Dec 31.
"New Year's Eve was WhatsApp's biggest messaging solar daytime ever, closing out a successful yr for the fellowship that included the introduction of several novel features," WhatsApp said inward a statement.
Interestingly, WhatsApp suffered an outage that lasted to a greater extent than than an hr piece of cake on Dec 31, 2017, in addition to inward the early on hours from Jan 1, 2018. Users inward Republic of Republic of India in addition to other parts of the footing went into a frenzy subsequently the messaging platform went down. It was though restored inward ii hours.
According to downdetector.co.uk, it received 2,012 reports that WhatsApp was non working at its peak.
More than 10 meg people to a greater extent than or less the footing went alive on Facebook to portion their New Years Eve moments amongst their communities. “The nighttime topped concluding year’s alive broadcast activity, amongst people sharing 47 per centum to a greater extent than alive videos than concluding year,” Erin Connolly, Product Manager at Facebook, wrote inward a weblog post service on Wednesday.
According to VentureBeat, WhatsApp’s novel tape represents the close messages sent inward a unmarried solar daytime inward the chat app’s history. The previous tape was gear upwards inward 2016, likewise on New Year’s Eve, amongst 63 billion messages sent.
The exceed 5 pop features of WhatsApp included video calling, alive location, delete for everyone (messages), novel album thought for photos in addition to "Status" which saw over 300 meg daily active users.
