100 billion messages sent on New Year's Eve

More than 100 billion messages were sent using WhatsApp on New Year's Eve.

Whatsapp officials said it was the highest number sent in a single day in the app's 10-year history.

In the UK alone, more than 900 million WhatsApp messages were sent as people welcomed the start of 2020.

Indians sent over 20 billion WhatsApp messages on New Year’s Eve.

The company said more than 12 billion of the messages sent globally were picture messages.

The app, which has more than 1.5 billion active users, was bought by Facebook in 2014 for around £14.5bn.

While revealing the data WhatsApp clarified due to the end-to-end encryption feature only a user and the person that he/she is communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody else - not even WhatsApp.


“However it seems fair to assume that a very large number of the messages sent on December 31st were wishing someone a ‘Happy New Year’," it said.

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