Whatsapp surpasses facebook as the most popular app in the world

Until now, Facebook had the honor of being the application most used by mobile phone consumers worldwide. But this week they have lost that honor. Although the application that has removed the post is very close to signing. Since it is WhatsApp, the messaging application owned by the social network which has taken the first place.

WhatsApp surpasses Facebook as the most popular app in the world

The messaging app would have overtaken the social network in September 2018. In addition, they have managed to exceed the number of monthly active users in the social network.

WhatsApp is the most popular

Both applications have similar user figures. Since according to the figures that the company itself revealed months ago, all these applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Messenger exceed 2 billion active users worldwide. So they are the most popular applications within this market segment. They are the ones that dominate by far in the field of social networks and messaging.

WhatsApp has a year of great importance before it. Very important changes are coming for the social network. Since new functions will arrive, in addition to the introduction of the announcements. So this could affect its popularity.

We hope to know more about the changes to be made in the messaging application. It is expected that it will continue to grow in terms of users. The question is whether Facebook is going to know how to maintain this position, due to the increase in popularity of Instagram in recent months.

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