have recently seen advertised WhatsApp 600 million monthly active users , a figure considered to be a dream for any mobile IM service you want to have market presence, and as a very respectable achievement considering the large number of competitors in the market.
08/25/2014 – Miguel Lopez – Genbeta.com.-
But what is the status of these competitors How many users have ? Where used more? Nothing like taking a look at the figures for all messaging services most used around the world to see where you rank these 600 million users WhatsApp. <- More ->
The first thing to be clear is that we need to know other factors to compare courier well with others, and not all provide these figures . For example: one thing is the registered users, covering those features but do not use it, and quite another are active users that better reflect the number of people who regularly use the service
. Line and WeChat: Giants come from Asia
One of these cases is Line , a service that should not take to achieve the 500 million registered users but not specific how many of Registered users use these regularly. Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan a good portion of users are kept, and although Spain has over 16 million registered users Line continues to thrive in Asia.
Then we have WeChat , which does reveal its active users: 438 million concentrates more on China. And that the country has eliminated more than 20 million accounts involved with prostitution forcing the rest of Chinese to register with their real identity, but this service Tencent remains as one of the most powerful.
Facebook, Apple and Google: inconclusive numbers
Facebook Messenger , recently relegated to dedicated applications eliminating the general application of social network, had in April more than 200 million active users . And we’re just talking about using the official application, we have yet to see how many more send instant messages using web desktop Facebook.
Facebook has chosen to insulate your instant messaging in a single mobile application
Remember that competes against Facebook Messenger WhatsApp, but both services are the property of Facebook. Still, Mark Zuckerberg said last spring he expects growth of both services “to cover cases of different use.”
Also in the spring we saw Tango boasted 200 million registered users and 70 million active while raised $ 280 million in investments. Viber , while reported 350 million registered users 100 of them active . In parallel, the alternative of Telegram reached 35 million active users per month
it does not say exactly how many people use their Apple messaging protocol is the figure specified usually always see is the number of messages that have been sent in iMessage , which was around 300,000 million per second rate of nearly 28,000 a year ago. There are 600 million registered accounts iCloud, which we could indicate the maximum (being very optimistic) of users that sent at least one message. The same goes for Google, it does not say how many people use Hangouts but who actively use their services (540 million) and specifically Google+ (300 million).
And there are other reasons to consider as a case iMessage especially: to be cast by sending SMS on all iPhone, sure there who sends the without even knowing who is using the protocol . That’s why Apple’s case can not be properly compared with other rivals.
But we have a WhatsApp triumphing over other messaging services compete with more users especially in Asia :
| Service | | |
|---|---|---|
| | | |
| Line | | |
| | | |
| Facebook Messenger | | |
| Tango | | |
| Viber | | |
| Telegram | | |
It is difficult to know if one day we will get another service unseat WhatsApp, or even other messaging unseat the current model with a whole new range of applications. For now, it seems that we have surprises
|. Otto Yamamoto
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