B
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5,000,000
5,000,000 -- merchant count for WhatsApp Business (2020)
More than 5 million merchants around the world use a business version of the WhatsApp messenger app.
- Source states 'more than 5 million'
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5,000,000
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Count
Data Vintage
2020
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
WhatsApp / Facebook
Primary
Tier B
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WhatsApp / Facebook
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WhatsApp Business: 5,000,000 merchant count. Source: WhatsApp / Facebook (2020). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/whatsapp-business-merchants-5m
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