Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp send 3 times as many messages as SMS.
At the conference of developers of the Facebook F8 conference, the company shared interesting metrics on the growth of popular messengers - Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. It turned out that people send three times more messages in these messengers than regular SMS.
Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook F8 Developer Conference told about the number of messages sent by Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp messengers. According to company estimates, every day people send 60 billion messages. At the same time, the number of SMS is about 20 billion per day.
In addition, the head of Facebook said that the number of Messenger users has grown to 900 million from 700, announced at the last conference. So the application may soon catch up with WhatsApp, which in February 2016 marked a billion users .
Zuckerberg told this data along with the announcement of the update of the messenger that received the chatbots support.. These chatbots will help companies provide services to customers, including technical support and sales of goods. Chatbots are actively used for the same purpose in other instant messengers, as well as on dating sites . CNN's Facebook partners and a couple of startups are Poncho weather app and Spring shopping app.
At the conference, Facebook introduced a number of technologies and metrics .
Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook F8 Developer Conference told about the number of messages sent by Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp messengers. According to company estimates, every day people send 60 billion messages. At the same time, the number of SMS is about 20 billion per day.
In addition, the head of Facebook said that the number of Messenger users has grown to 900 million from 700, announced at the last conference. So the application may soon catch up with WhatsApp, which in February 2016 marked a billion users .
Zuckerberg told this data along with the announcement of the update of the messenger that received the chatbots support.. These chatbots will help companies provide services to customers, including technical support and sales of goods. Chatbots are actively used for the same purpose in other instant messengers, as well as on dating sites . CNN's Facebook partners and a couple of startups are Poncho weather app and Spring shopping app.
At the conference, Facebook introduced a number of technologies and metrics .