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1,500,000,000
1,500,000,000 -- user base for WhatsApp (2020)
WhatsApp has over 1.5 billion smartphone users in 180 countries.
- Source states 'over 1.5 billion'
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1,500,000,000
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Count
Data Vintage
2020
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
notty.co.uk
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Tier B
https://www.notty.co.uk/blog/social-media/whatsapp-to-stop-running-on-older-phones ↗
Source Article
WhatsApp to stop working on thousands of phones
WhatsApp announced that from 1st February 2020, their messaging service will no longer work on millions of older devices that run on older operating systems. With over 1.5 billion smartphone users in 180 countries, sending 50 million messages per day, the update will have a big effect on a significa…
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notty.co.uk
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WhatsApp: 1,500,000,000 user base. Source: notty.co.uk (2020). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/whatsapp-users-180-countries-2020
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