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I keep hearing this - and I recall a slate of articles claiming "WhatsApp is dead, users are flocking to Signal/Telegram" so I looked up the numbers. Signal ha
by oarabbus_ 4y ago
I keep hearing this - and I recall a slate of articles claiming "WhatsApp is dead, users are flocking to Signal/Telegram" so I looked up the numbers.
Signal has around 50M MAU.
Telegram has 500M MAU.
Messenger has 1B MAU.
WeChat has 1.2B MAU.
Whataspp has >2B MAU.
- spicybright 4y agoThat tells you nothing about a trend though, right? We'd have to look at this over time to see if people are actually moving to/starting to use signal.
- oarabbus_ 4y agoIf you look at the data over time, you'll find that both Messenger and WhatsApp have grown MAUs every quarter since their existence. You're free to draw your own conclusion to the question.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoOh, I'm not claiming that Signal is taking over everywhere, just that in some groups of people it's becoming quite common.