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WhatsApp now has several billion users - can Facebook keep up?

2020-02-22T05:51:14.335Z


WhatsApp has passed a new milestone. The messenger now has several billion users. Can Facebook keep up?


WhatsApp has passed a new milestone. The messenger now has several billion users. Can Facebook keep up?

  • WhatsApp has passed a new milestone
  • The messenger has several billion users
  • Can Facebook keep up in Germany ?

Messenger news: WhatsApp now has a proud 5 billion installations in Google's in-house play store. Only another app that is not from Google has already broken this sound barrier. We're talking about WhatsApp mother Facebook. The English-language site "Android Police" first reported about this.

WhatsApp is the second app that does not come from Google and breaks the sound barrier of five billion installations in the Play Store. Many more apps will follow in the coming months. https://t.co/CrZiNLW1oK pic.twitter.com/cH7sG4qJfy

- GoogleWatchBlog (@googlewatchblog) January 20, 2020

Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp: In 2020, 60 million active users a day in Germany

WhatsApp was used by 1.5 billion monthly active users in 2018. It is now estimated that there are around 1.6 billion people - WhatsApp currently has 60 million active users in Germany every day. Facebook, on the other hand, has 32 million monthly users in Germany. So WhatsApp has left the parent company Facebook in Germany. That would have been unthinkable in 2009 when WhatsApp was founded.

It is worth noting, however, that the counter in the Play Store does not only record regular downloads. In addition, the download statistics do not reflect the number of active users. Background: Many smartphones from manufacturers such as Samsung or LG are delivered with pre-installed versions of WhatsApp. A download and installation of the app are therefore not necessary.

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However, this does not apply to the Chinese manufacturer Huawei, whose smartphones cannot access the Play Store due to US sanctions. Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp should be proud of the statistics. But that's not all.

The app will soon be celebrating its eleventh birthday in around a month. Review: on February 24, 2009 Jan Koum founded WhatsApp Inc. In 2014, Koum and co-founder Brian Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook for a total of $ 19 billion. Both have now left WhatsApp.

By Moritz Serif

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Source: merkur

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