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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWfzyQBWrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWfzyQBWrU > Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 - 2019 WhatsApp has approx. 2 b
by esotericn 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWfzyQBWrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWfzyQBWrU
> Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 - 2019
WhatsApp has approx. 2 billion users. The beginning of that video starts out with messengers (not including things like IRC and email) that have a few million.
This is just the Eternal September effect.
You and I can just crack out nginx and host a site. The author of this post didn't even do that; what hope is there for the rest?
An instant messenger, even a secure one, needs a proper marketing budget in order to succeed out in the real world. It doesn't just need to be superior - it needs to be _advertised_.