closing WhatsApp 2012 again demonstrated its leadership among messaging platforms. On December 31 the service broke its own record and processed 18 billion messages a day , figure that eclipsed the mark of 10 billion messages you got in August.
Undoubtedly
was an impressive achievement for the company and revealed again popularity worldwide. Service managers were announced the news on his official Twitter account and said there were 11 billion messages sent and 7 billion texts received.
To clarify the difference between numbers had nothing to do with lost messages but with group chats . According to the official explanation sending one message to a group of 10 members representing a ratio of 1:10, Incoming outgoing.
Beyond the statistics, these numbers WhatsApp away some of the pressure that was generated with the birth of several competing services within the same genus. Also avoided the criticism generated after the discovery of some security flaws.
Before the holidays this year the developers adopted an interesting strategy WhatsApp for iPhone and distributed free of charge. The promotion was for a limited time but gave a major boost to its adoption among users of Apple’s smartphone.
How
can grow WhatsApp? Is there a ceiling for this kind of instant messaging services? Entries are open to give us your opinion.
Track | WhatsApp (Twitter).
The desired goal by Mark Zuckerberg and company finally became a reality. Facebook reached one billion active users per month , as published the CEO this morning. Thus confirmed its status as the most popular social network globally, sticking out a comfortable lead its competitors.
“This morning there are more than one billion people actively using Facebook each month. If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my team the honor of serving “, published in the official blog Zuckerberg. For now the social network does not specifically say how many users it has, but is likely to make them available soon. This is the rest of the release of the founder of Facebook:
Helping billion people connect is awesome and is by far, humbly, what I’m most proud of in my life. I promised to work every day for Facebook is better for you, and hopefully together we will also be able to connect to the rest of the world.
Facebook
growth in so far year is impressive. In July the social network had 955 million active users, which means that 45 million more added in just two months . Analysts believe that the social network would overcome before the barrier of one billion, but the controversy after the company quoted on stock affected their performance.
Anyway, Facebook statistics are shocking and
make clear difference with the rest of the exponents in the same genre.
Android phone users are in luck. And is that during this time the Android Market celebrates the spectacular figure of 10 billion download, and what better way to do it by throwing a very special offer to users. For ten days will play very interesting offers, all from a price
absolutely …
The last time the apps for smartphones and electronic tablets have become a boom . Today we can say that there are applications for any task you can think of, and more and more developers enter the scene of the software for the latest gadgets.
But it seems that the current trend is just a sample of the explosion that apps will see the market in some years. According to a study by IDC
, a major research firm, to be discharged annually
2015 183 000 000 000 Applications dedicated to smart phones and tablets. A number of interesting, right?
If we compare this figure with that obtained in 2010 (10,700 million), means that we have just seen the tip of the iceberg. But what is striking about this situation is that another research firm, ABC Research , said that by 2016 be discharged “only” 44 billion apps . Who will be right? Why are there so much difference in the estimates
According to IDC the real mass market apps will come when developers see their products a profitable business model . Experts suggest that when the developers include a means of payment within applications, as well as advertising and other e-commerce options, will cause the real boom will lead to the bestial figure above.
While they are only forecasts are to be taken into account in the future. It seems to be on stage “sweet” for developers who want to try their luck in the world of apps for smartphones and electronic tablets
Track | Business Wire | IDC.
