Indians Sent About 20 Billion WhatsApp Messages On NYE And Twitter Just Cannot Keep Calm

Ever since the age of technology dawned on us, we have been becoming increasingly dependent on it. Electricity, telephones, mobile phones, internet are just some of the examples. Then came social media and it took us all by storm. From My Space and Orkut to Facebook and WhatsApp, we’ve come a really long way ahead.

Today, living without social media seems like living in an ancient civilisation, like stone age. It’s like an addiction we cannot get rehabilitated from. And I guess I speak for a majority of us when I say that.

We prefer wishing our loved ones on special occasions by texting them, or posting on their walls, or tweeting about them. And God forbid if we fail to do it, our social circles are ready to jump to conclusions about a relationship gone sour.

Of all the days of the year, NYE is the most important day for sharing new year wishes. WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app which is now owned by Facebook, suffered a global shutdown on NYE 2017. And if you didn’t wish people on WhatsApp, did you even wish them at all?

Whatsapp can't be down. I don't remember how to send SMS'. pic.twitter.com/BMWOdwKqT7

— Britt (@and_Companyy) December 31, 2017

An official statement by the company stated that 75 billion messages were sent on NYE, including images and videos. Out of these, 20 billion messages were sent by Indian users. That is a STAGGERING number and the Twitterati cannot keep calm with this piece of information.

1. Anyone who disagrees is simply overly optimistic.

Well, @WhatsApp says 75 billion messages were sent globally on NYE; 20 billion messages were shared in India alone. Pity, could have been more, had it not crashed at the most inopportune time.

— VM (@vishalmathur85) January 4, 2018

2. Oh, the amount of forwards you receive, dammit!

https://twitter.com/one_by_two/status/949166619414052864

3. Not sure this makes sense with the context, but it’s still funny. 😛

If WhatsApp would have been Indian, the founders must have bargained for $20 billion. "Arrey round figure mein karle na yaar"

— Varun Chandola (@VvarunNChandola) February 22, 2014

4. And family group messages.

This also includes GM Dear messages? lulz

Indians sent 20 billion WhatsApp messages on New Year's Eve https://t.co/HTol9TVwvI
-via @inshorts

— abhinit khanna (@abhinitk) January 5, 2018

5. Kaafi zyaada, I’m guessing.

Out of 75 billion, 20 billion Whatsapp messages sent in India on New Year’s Eve. Socho – Kitne Khali hain hum. ? https://t.co/kyLjQtFz2l

— Suvasit (@Suvasit) January 4, 2018

6. My mother will make up for the rest.

of this my mother accounts for 11 billion messages

— Veena Venugopal (@veenavenugopal) January 4, 2018

7. Hello there, genius!

Wow! It means one person has sent about 20 messages on that day.#NewYear #SuperPowerBeatDown

— Santosh Reddy (@SantoshReddy414) January 4, 2018

8. In our defence, it was a holiday.

Look how busy Indians are wasting their time.

— Buddha (@Modibestpm) January 4, 2018

Indian WhatsApp user base is about 200 million monthly active users. So given the numbers by the company itself, we can take a little credit in knowing that we, the Indians, messaged SO MUCH on NYE that the application crashed! LOL. Apologies to the world WhatsApp users, the servers clearly couldn’t handle the volume of our messaging skills!

Take a bow, India, take a bow. Or better still, here..take a forwarded Whatsapp message. 😛

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