WhatsApp Beats SnapChat With Its New “Status” Feature

It has just been two months when the WhatsApp’s new feature “Status” had been rolled out and is now on the verge of breaking records as this new feature beats SnapChat’s “SnapChat Stories” with a whopping 175 million daily active users.

The “Status” feature of WhatsApp is actually the clone of “SnapChat Stories.”One can post stories, photo, as well as videos, and this will disappear within 24 hours. This feature was included in Instagram, Messenger and lately in WhatsApp.

When WhatsApp rolled this new feature “Status” in February, it gained initial criticism because users got habituated to see WhatsApp as just a messaging app. But, Facebook’s intention is to roll out all the global features to WhatsApp so as to create a healthy competition among the other app users.

Despite all the initial criticism, people are in fact using WhatsApp Status, and recently, the active users number reached 1.2 billion.

Just a month ago, it was revealed SnapChat held around 161 million active users, Instagram with over 200 million daily active users for its Instagram Stories, and now its WhatsApp with over 175 million users daily in just three months or so.

Facebook recently included “Stories” feature to its main Facebook app. But there is still some good news for SnapChat they don’t seem to be going anywhere, as more than half of the Facebook users don’t visit Facebook daily and nearly 60% of the users don’t visit Instagram daily, according to research conducted by Bloomberg.