WhatsApp Will Remain Number One Despite Controversies

WhatsApp, arguably the world’s largest instant messaging platform, will not see any threat from its rivals Telegram or Signal. A few months back, when controversies related to the privacy policy of the application surfaced in the market, Elon Musk, a big social influencer these days, tweeted and asked people to move to Signal. Signal is one of the most privacy-enhanced applications for texting in the world. At the same time, Telegram should be just behind Signal in privacy and WhatsApp will take the last place because of its recent policies and drive to store user information and sharing it with third-party companies for making additional revenues.

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But there’s no way either of these privacy-enhanced applications is going to beat WhatsApp. Here’s why.

Telegram Registered 1 Billionth Download, But Still Not a Threat to WhatsApp

Telegram recently became one of the select applications in the world to get its billionth download. The application deserves it because of its modern texting features. But at the same time, WhatsApp has more than 6 billion downloads. Being a new app, Signal is nowhere close to these two applications.

The reason why WhatsApp won’t be overtaken by either of these applications is the brand it has created for itself. It was one of the earliest chatting applications in the world, which got very famous very fast, and since Facebook has acquired it, the app has been rolling out new features every few weeks.

Further, the fact that many people didn’t shift to other applications despite WhatsApp claiming that it will take their data and share it with others is just a testament to the fact that people are ‘used’ to the app’s interface and features, and they wouldn’t want to shift to any other application any time soon.