![]() Similar to WeChat’s announcement, it is not clear whether the total represents registered or active users. However, there isn’t any official update since then. The 20M reported is not far behind WhatsApp, but the gap between the two chat apps might be wider if we compare by active users.Īccording to an announcement by LINE Malaysia back in 2014, there were 10M LINE users in Malaysia back then. From the chat app’s point of view, active users is a very important metric and it can be measured by MAU, WAU, DAU (monthly, weekly, daily active users). It is not clear though whether the number represents registered users or active users. Prior to the WeChat Pay launch in Malaysia, a senior VP of Tencent claimed that there are 20M WeChat users in Malaysia. Let’s try another angle by using Facebook Ads Manager by limiting the placements to Messenger only.īy looking at the potential reach shown above, there are 12M FB Messenger users in Malaysia. With 23M Facebook users in Malaysia, we can estimate 60% or 13.8M of FB Messenger users here. There is a ratio of 1.2B FB Messenger to 2B Facebook users, which means around 60% of Facebook users do actually use FB Messenger. There aren’t many statistics available in regard to FB Messenger so let’s first refer to the chart above. You can also read another report here on how popular WhatsApp is in Malaysia as a source of news. With 68% penetration, there are around 21M WhatsApp users in Malaysia. Guess what? Malaysia ranks #2 in the world just behind Saudi Arabia! On a side note, did you also know that Malaysia is one of the top 5 countries with Waze users? There is an interesting chart reported by Statista (see above) on a list of countries ranked by WhatsApp penetration (% of the population). This is not a straightforward research as most of the popular chat apps don’t release their active users count to the public. So, let’s find out which are the top messenger apps in Malaysia measured by the number of users. However, the chart reported by We Are Social above is based on survey-based data, not by the number of app installs or active users. Setting aside the social media platforms, the following are the top chat apps in Malaysia if we refer to the dark orange bars above: What about Malaysia? Let’s revisit this chart we used for the top 5 social media platforms in Malaysia earlier. Completing the top 10 chat apps list are Telegram and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). On the contrary, LINE ranks 8th in the world, after the likes of Skype, Viber, and Snapchat. As both apps are only mainstream in China, the users are mainly contributed by its 1.4B population. ![]() If we rank by the number of users, WeChat is the world’s no 3 after the big two, and QQ Mobile ranks 4th right after WeChat. Check the chart below on top mobile messaging apps worldwide, based on the number of monthly active users. Not really, if we refer to Statista from another data perspective. So, is Viber the world’s no 3 after WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger? ![]() If you look at the world map illustrated by MessengerPeople, pay attention to WhatsApp’s green and Facebook’s blue, it seems like the world domination of messenger apps by Facebook (as Facebook owns WhatsApp).īy referring to the map above, Viber conquers 10 European countries whereas LINE and WeChat are only dominant in 3 countries combined. LINE is #1 in 2 countries (Japan & Thailand).Facebook Messenger is #1 in 64 countries.Even after you change WhatsApp’s media upload quality to the best quality, it won’t upload the image’s original resolution.Before we zoom in on Malaysia, let’s check out the top messenger apps by country reported by SimilarWeb as of December 2017 (on Android only). Therefore, while WhatsApp permits sharing documents up to 2GB, the maximum media size remains limited to 16MB.Īlso, WhatsApp has a compulsory file-compressing technology that will reduce the quality of images and videos you send. In contrast, Telegram allows you to upload files of up to 2GB at once, which is equivalent to about 120 minutes of video content in 1080p resolution. On most phones, this translates to approximately 90 seconds to 3 minutes of video content. However, it's worth noting that even after the update, WhatsApp still restricts the size of media to only 16MB. Prior to the May 2022 update, WhatsApp had a maximum file size limit of 100MB for documents, photos, and other media files, which was considerably smaller compared to Telegram's limits. File Size Limits and Media Qualityīoth WhatsApp and Telegram allow users to upload media files, but there are differences in their file size limits. Another important factor we can use to pit WhatsApp and Telegram is their rules concerning sharing media and files.
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