On: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

[LeonM]

In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here.

Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest of Europe was the same. I guess this proves that assumption is the mother of all failures.

[pqs → LeonM]

Europe is very heterogeneous. I'm sure social network usage is very different in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Norway or the UK.

[pimterry → pqs]

As a Brit living in Spain I can cover half of those, and in both Spain & UK whatsapp is absolutely everywhere.

In Spain in fact it's ridiculous - surveys show approx 97% of the population saying they use it regularly (https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...).

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/16/inenglish/14240... has some interesting background on why. I suspect also the fact that Latin America tends to use whatsapp quite heavily (https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...) probably makes a difference too.

[Shorel → pqs]

Viber is very used in some parts of Europe. More than WhatsApp.

Latin America is basically WhatsApp and nothing else.

[Gwypaas → LeonM]

Depends on country, many has messenger as the primary app. In Sweden Whatsapp barely even exists.

https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...

[coddle-hark → LeonM]

Also in Europe: The exact opposite.

[thorin → LeonM]

I'd say >50% of smartphone users have Whatsapp in the UK and >50% of smartphone users have FB messenger, of course quite a few have both. I prefer Whatsapp, but contacting a small or large business like a pub or takeaway often works surprisingly well with FB.

[dbspin → LeonM]

Ireland here - Whatsapp is ubiquitous, even amongst the elderly. Presumably because iPhones are still in the minority, so iMessage hasn't taken over.

[Hansi → LeonM]

In your country/social group. Messanger has a bigger footprint than WhatsApp in some of my social groups in Europe.

[l1ghthouse → LeonM]

Im also from The Netherlands. I don't use whatsapp at all... (for me its a bliss and removes the group chats insanity)

iMessage and Telegram covers everyone I know.

[lokethien → LeonM]

Everyone use Snapchat in Norway