
WhatsApp Clocked Over 1.4 Billion Voice and Video Calls on New Year's Eve Globally, Breaks its Old Record
News 18WhatsApp clocked more than 1.4 billion voice and video calls on this New Year’s Eve globally – breaking all its previous records. The company says that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, New Year’s Eve generated Facebook’s biggest spikes in messaging, photo uploads and social sharing at midnight across the world. “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,” the Facebook executive said. Facebook’s Apps Helped People Celebrate the New Year Together, Even When Apart https://t.co/QJuHiq80XC— Facebook Newsroom January 1, 2021 Facebook may continue to notice this increase in video and voice calls across WhatsApp and other platforms as the company is bringing more support through different channels.
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