WhatsApp: Over 1.4 billion video and voice calls have been made on New Year’s Eve

Facebook has revealed that WhatsApp witnessed 50 p.c improve in video and voice calling on New Year’s eve 2020 compared to final 12 months. WhatsApp is among the hottest messaging apps all around the world and the service helps you to conveniently make calls without spending a dime with none time restriction. As many individuals have been staying indoors attributable to coronavirus pandemic, loads of them used WhatsApp to make calls throughout New Year Eve.
As per the stats shared by Facebook, greater than 1.4 billion video and voice calls have been made globally on New Year’s eve. The social media large additionally witnessed greater than 55 million stay broadcasts globally throughout Facebook and Instagram in the course of the event.
Commenting on the sudden improve within the utilization of the apps amidst the pandemic, Caitlin Banford, technical program supervisor at Facebook stated, “Before Covid-19, New Year’s Eve generated Facebook’s biggest spikes in messaging, photo uploads and social sharing at midnight across the world. However, in March 2020, the early days of the pandemic produced traffic spikes that would dwarf New Year’s Eve several times over — and it lasted for months.”
“Behind the scenes, Facebook Engineering came together to drive unprecedented efficiency improvements and make our infrastructure more resilient. This work includes load testing, disaster recovery testing, and shuffling capacity. This year, New Year’s Eve looked a lot different, and we had engineering teams across Facebook’s apps, ready to support any issue, so the world could ring in 2021,” she added.
The firm didn’t reveal the stats of what number of messages have been exchanged on the event. Last 12 months, over 100 billion messages have been despatched globally on WhatsApp on December 31, 2019, as per Facebook. In India alone, the social media large famous that greater than 20 billion messages have been despatched on the messaging app.