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If you\'re a Telegram or Viber user and wondering why there\'s no one else to message, the answer could lie in new data on the global usage of different messenger apps on Android.
London: If you're a Telegram or Viber user and wondering why there's no one else to message, the answer could lie in new data on the global usage of different messenger apps on Android.
Research from analytics firm SimilarWeb shows that the Facebook-owned WhatsApp is currently the world leader, being the most popular messaging app in 109 countries or 55.6 per cent of the world. Facebook's own Messenger app is a distant second, topping the charts in 49 countries.
The countries include India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and many other countries in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. WhatsApp currently has over one billion monthly active users. In India, over 70 million people use the messaging service.
These two apps greatly outdid other messaging apps such as Viber, Line, WeChat and Telegram, though Viber is the only one of the four to claim more than 10 countries.
Some apps dominate in their home country but nowhere else, as in the case of KakaoTalk in South Korea and BBM in Indonesia.
Viber has strong popularity in Eastern Europe and is the top app in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, among others, and as of April 2016, Viber was installed on 65 per cent of all Android devices in Ukraine.
Line, WeChat and Telegram are claiming multiple countries with China, Iran and Japan representing countries using one of these apps. The report also said that BlackBerry's BBM is still used by the masses in at least one country in the world: Indonesia.
"As of April 2016, the app was installed on 87.5 percent of all Android devices in the country, far surpassing any other country in terms of BBM use," the report noted.
In the US, only 0.42 percent of Androids had the BBM app, with Australia and Britain showing slightly higher use.
