{"id":371,"date":"2020-02-12T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-02-13T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:51:50","slug":"whatsapp-has-more-than-2-billion-users-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/02\/12\/whatsapp-has-more-than-2-billion-users-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>How many of you do not about WhatsApp? We will be surprised if you have smart phone and not used WhatsApp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sakshi.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/storypage_main\/public\/article_images\/2020\/02\/13\/WHATSAPP.jpg?itok=jk5NZboo\" alt=\"WhatsApp now has 200 crore users - Sakshi\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Over 25 per cent of the world&#8217;s population &#8212;  Two billion+ people globally  now uses WhatsApp. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is among the biggest markets for WhatsApp.  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said WhatsApp had 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages on a single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/89\/Facebook_Logo_%282019%29.svg\/250px-Facebook_Logo_%282019%29.svg.png\" alt=\"Facebook Logo (2019).svg\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WhatsApp platform is secured with end-to-end encryption by default.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last &nbsp;October, WhatsApp had said it was suing NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm, that is reportedly behind the technology that helped unnamed entities\u2019 spies to hack into phones of roughly 1,400 users globally, including 121 in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WhatsApp\/Facebook Clarification<\/strong><br>\u201cStrong encryption acts like an unbreakable digital lock that keeps the information you send over WhatsApp secure, helping protect you from hackers and criminals,\u201d it added. It said messages are only kept on the user\u2019s phone. \u201c\u2026no one in between can read your messages or listen to your calls, not even us. Your private conversations stay between you,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Image result for telegram app\" class=\"wp-image-372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-3.jpeg 321w, https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-3-300x147.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption>Telegram Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chance Pei Dance<\/strong><br>Rival <strong>Telegram<\/strong> for not being as secure as it claims to be \u2014 said strong encryption is a necessity in modern life.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is your thougts? let us know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>How many of you do not about WhatsApp? We will be surprised if you have smart phone and not used WhatsApp Over 25 per cent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[99,94,100,97,96,98,95],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-celebration","tag-facebook","tag-global-users","tag-hack","tag-telegram","tag-users","tag-whatsapp"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}