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Monthly active users of mobile messaging apps in 2015 and 2020
Number of monthly active users of selected mobile messaging apps in 2015 and 2020 (in million users)
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This statistic shows the number of monthly active users of selected mobile messaging apps in 2015 and a forecast for 2020. According to the source, the mobile messaging app WhatsApp is projected to have 1.6 billion monthly active users in 2020.
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by Statista Research Department,
last edited
Nov 19, 2015
This statistic shows the number of monthly active users of selected mobile messaging apps in 2015 and a forecast for 2020. According to the source, the mobile messaging app WhatsApp is projected to have 1.6 billion monthly active users in 2020.
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