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In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here. Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and
by LeonM 6y ago
In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here.
Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest of Europe was the same. I guess this proves that assumption is the mother of all failures.
- Hansi 6y agoIn your country/social group. Messanger has a bigger footprint than WhatsApp in some of my social groups in Europe.
- coddle-hark 6y agoAlso in Europe: The exact opposite.
- pqs 6y agoEurope is very heterogeneous. I'm sure social network usage is very different in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Norway or the UK.
- pimterry 6y agoAs a Brit living in Spain I can cover half of those, and in both Spain & UK whatsapp is absolutely everywhere. In Spain in fact it's ridiculous - surveys show approx 97% of the population saying they use it regularly (https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-statistics/#Spain https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...). https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/16/inenglish/1424084620_570764.html https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/16/inenglish/14240... has some interesting background on why. I suspect also the fact that Latin America tends to use whatsapp quite heavily (https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-statistics/#LatinAmerica https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...) probably makes a difference too.
- Shorel 6y agoViber is very used in some parts of Europe. More than WhatsApp. Latin America is basically WhatsApp and nothing else.
- Gwypaas 6y agoDepends on country, many has messenger as the primary app. In Sweden Whatsapp barely even exists. https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-statistics/ https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...
- lokethien 6y agoEveryone use Snapchat in Norway
- l1ghthouse 6y agoIm also from The Netherlands. I don't use whatsapp at all... (for me its a bliss and removes the group chats insanity) iMessage and Telegram covers everyone I know.
- thorin 6y agoI'd say >50% of smartphone users have Whatsapp in the UK and >50% of smartphone users have FB messenger, of course quite a few have both. I prefer Whatsapp, but contacting a small or large business like a pub or takeaway often works surprisingly well with FB.
- dbspin 6y agoIreland here - Whatsapp is ubiquitous, even amongst the elderly. Presumably because iPhones are still in the minority, so iMessage hasn't taken over.