{"id":18060,"date":"2017-07-27T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:54:10","slug":"whatsapp-reaches-new-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/whatsapp-reaches-new-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp reaches new milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, WhatsApp announced that there were one billion people around the world using WhatsApp every month. As of yesterday, there are now\u00a0one billion people around the world using WhatsApp <strong>every single day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18061\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42908400348478.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42908400348478.jpeg 1920w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42908400348478-300x169.jpeg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42908400348478-768x432.jpeg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42908400348478-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That works out to one out of every seven or eight people using the popular communication platform, every day.<\/p>\n<p>To put into context just how huge that is, Instagram, (Facebook) Messenger, and Facebook have 700 Million, 1.2 Billion, and 2 billion monthly users, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The communication platform has continued to adapt and improve its services, moving beyond being merely a messenger service by providing voice, video calling and file sharing options.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, WhatsApp announced that there were one billion people around the world using WhatsApp every month. As of yesterday, there are now\u00a0one billion people around the world using WhatsApp every single day. That works out to one out of every seven or eight people using the popular communication platform, every day. To put<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/whatsapp-reaches-new-milestone\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,2009,2339,2166],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WhatsApp_Logo_5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18067,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions\/18067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}