The Bloomberg
publication has published a rating of popular in the world of instant messengers.
The most popular messenger is
QQ . According to the newspaper, 843 million people use it every month. QQ Messenger is owned by Tencent.
Initially, the program was called OICQ and was based on the legacy of the outdated
ICQ application. The original design was like the above outdated program, but later it began to resemble more and more
Windows Live Messenger .
The second place is occupied by
WhatsApp , which is used by more than 800 million people every month. Last year, Facebook acquired it for $ 18 billion. The third most popular is
Facebook Messenger . His audience has 700 million monthly users.
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Over the last quarter, the audience of the Chinese messenger
WeChat reached 600 million active users. This figure was achieved thanks to an increase in audience of 37%.
The fifth, sixth and seventh place is occupied by the Israeli
Viber (249 million), the popular in Japan
Line (211 million) and
Snapchat (about 100 million users), respectively.
Despite the growing popularity of these services, only a few of them bring the owner a profit, noted in Bloomberg. Such messengers are more likely considered as an auxiliary tool for making profit like advertising.