With the invention of smartphones, more options have been added, so that today it is almost impossible to keep track of the selection of messenger apps. According to Statista, consumers have chosen a few favorites: WhatsApp (2 billion active users) and Facebook Messenger (1.4 billion active users), both owned by Facebook, as the most popular messenger apps - closely followed by the two Asian favorites WeChat (1 billion active users) and QQ Mobile (800M active users).
Messenger apps are so widely used that there south africa rcs data are now more active users on messaging platforms than on social media networks themselves.
According to a report by Business Insider UK, already surpassed the four largest social networks in 2015. This is measured by the number of active users. In 2015 there were just over 2 billion users and today there are already more than double that.