Indians switching to multiple messaging apps, no longer limited to just WhatsApp: study

Indian users are slowly picking up the trend of using multiple messaging apps to converse, rather than sticking to just one, according to a user insights research by techARC. The study, which looked at over 2000 participants showed that Indian users are prefer multiple platforms, based on their unique feature-sets and communication apps such as Telegram and Signal as gaining popularity.

While WhatsApp has had 53 percent of its users for over 3 years now, rival app Telegram has gained most of its users in the same 3 years. Signal, on the other hand, has gained about 47 percent of its users in just the last 1 year, shows the survey.