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Facebook recently announced its Q2 2017 earnings. In this announcement, the social media giant stated that the messaging app WhatsApp now boasts 1 billion daily users. WhatsApp Status, the Snapchat Stories clone, also reached 250 million daily users. Furthermore, WhatsApp users are currently sending 55 billion messages and 4.5 billion photos every day.
WhatsApp currently supports 60 languages and has rapidly expanded its global user base by being free, easy to use, and having features lacking in traditional SMS. It surpassed the 1-billion-monthly-user mark in February 2016. Now, this is a great achievement, only bettered by the fact that WhatsApp now has 1 billion users daily.
Also, the rapid growth of WhatsApp Status is worth a closer look. As of the beginning of May, WhatsApp Status had 175 million uses. This means that it has added 75 million daily users in less than two months. By contrast, Snapchat currently has 166 million daily users. As of April, Instagram Stories has 200 million users. This means that WhatsApp Status has surpassed both Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories in daily use for the comparable feature.
Despite this, it is hard to say if WhatsApp’s popularity will steal a significant part of Snapchat’s audience. As a matter of fact, more than half of Snapchat’s users are not daily Facebook users. Furthermore, half of these Snapchat users are not daily Instagram users. However, this does show that there is still a huge market to fill in the world of ephemeral content.
According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company is still early on the monetization side for the app, and both Facebook and WhatsApp are currently building teams to address how the app can eventually make money. After all, monetizing an app that has 1 billion daily active users could result in staggering profits. As it is, it will certainly be interesting to see how WhatsApp and WhatsApp Stories continue to row in the future, and if Snapchat can make moves to compete against WhatsApp and Instagram.
WhatsApp Users Growth Timeline
- In 2017, WhatsApp clocked 1 billion daily users.
- The app hit 1.5 billion users in January 2018.
- In February 2020, WhatsApp announced that it had clocked 2 billion daily users[1]
- In 2021, the app hit 2.2 billion users
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The thing about cars is that people tend to want more and more gadgets strapped to their hoods, doors, mirrors and even tires. A whole new generation has been influenced by James Bond movies where the titular character didn’t just have his wits about him but also had cool technology to help him beat the bad guys. When those movies first came out, most of those tricks were pure science fiction and movie goers were left in awe. Now however, many of those gimmicks seen in James Bond Cars are now available on real cars. We have a few for you.
Calling from your car
There used to be a time when people could only dream of being able to place calls directly from their car. It was truly the ultimate “mobile” solution. That is no longer the case as mobile phones have been around for a very long time. Also for a very long time, people have had the comfort of Bluetooth technology and through it they can hook up their phones to the car system easily. Plus some new car systems have inbuilt software and hardware that you can place calls with even without using your phone. You can even do video calls in some cars.
James Bond Cars Can Stop Enemies In Their Tracks
Today, having something spew from the rear side of your car directly onto the portion of the road behind you and in the path of a pursuing vehicle is a huge cliché. That doesn’t mean that people weren’t excited to see it happen when it first started popping up in movies, cartoons and even video games many years. If you really want to, you can have a system like that hooked up to your own car. However there’s not much legality behind the concept, nor will it be soon approved by local authorities. Just be aware that the technology exists today.
Amphibian Cars: James Bond Cars Can Swim
Another really cool thing to see on TV some time ago was a car that could turn into a naval vehicle in an instant. There are such things as amphibian vehicles available nowadays and they offer users the opportunity to traverse land and water, switching at the user’s will. The really neat thing is that this is more than just a gimmick. It’s actually something really useful that has transitioned from screen to reality very nicely and is used today by those who need that kind of mobility either for their line of work or personal convenience.
James Bond Cars Switch Plates
The law requires all registered vehicles to have a license plate. That makes it really hard to be mischievous on the road because the police can easily authenticate you and know where to find you. But what if you could switch your license plate with the push of a button? You’d be pretty much invisible. It is easier to be up to no good when no one knows who you are. That being said it is best if you keep that to an academic curiosity and not try to pull it off. But the technology to do it exists should you need to go on an undercover operation. Other than that, please stay law abiding.
To Infinity And Beyond!
It is very exciting to see how far technology has come along. In James Bond movies, our favourite licensed secret agent was able to pull off many neat stunts with the help of incredible cars . We already have experimental and pre-production flying cars. One day, reality will surpass James Bond.
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