27 Billion Messages In One Day: WhatsApp Creates A New Record

We had spotted several Whatsapp stats in the past - we spotted this stat today, that it hit an all-time high record of 27 billion messages in one day. One day. (Source)

How do we digest this number? Let us try this: at 1.5 billion smartphones in the world, this is an average of 18 messages per smartphone on that one single day.

Someone said WhatsApp is the new Facebook. These numbers make it difficult for Facebook to match up.