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WhatsApp is by far the most popular option overall and in Europe too. Facebook Messenger and WeChat are also popular. iMessage is only used in the US.

• kergonath 3y ago
  > WhatsApp is by far the most popular option overall and in Europe too. Facebook Messenger and WeChat are also popular. And Discord, and Telegram. Aggregate averages are not useful because they mask a lot of very different situations. Even at the country level, just look at this map for example: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/research/market-research/worldwide-messaging-apps https://www.similarweb.com/blog/research/market-research/wor... . And even this map obscures a lot: it does not show social effects, and it only shows the most dominant platform without telling how popular the others are. In these discussions you see a lot of people parroting anecdotes as if they were statistically significant. This is really unhelpful. > iMessage is only used in the US. This is factually false, for example. Loads of people use it in Europe as well, even though it might not be the case in your social circles. It is not dominant anywhere, but that includes the US. Looking here for example: https://engage.sinch.com/blog/most-popular-messaging-apps-in-the-world https://engage.sinch.com/blog/most-popular-messaging-apps-in... iMessage usage varies from ~10% to ~35% depending on countries (with a lot of countries missing). That’s quite a few million people using it at the very least. Again, asserting anecdotes that way is really unhelpful.