Chat App Conquest

From the early SMS era to today's encrypted superapps — this visualization traces 20 years of global messaging. Watch WhatsApp grow from a tiny startup to 2+ billion monthly users (Meta acquired it in 2014 for ~$19B), see WeChat turn into China's superapp (Tencent reported ~1.24B MAUs around 2021), and witness Telegram's massive surge after the 2021 privacy firestorm (Telegram hit ~500M MAUs in 2021). Signal spikes during the same period but settles into a privacy-niche. This chart race shows one clear truth: modern chat apps crushed legacy messaging and rewired how the world talks.

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Sources (selected): Meta & WhatsApp press releases (1B in 2016, 2B in 2020), Tencent quarterly MAU reports, Telegram and Signal public milestone announcements, industry coverage (TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters) for spikes and policy events.

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Видео Chat App Conquest канала StatRevoltAI