Most Indians Are Using Multiple Messaging Apps After WhatsApp's Policy Debacle: Study

After the whole WhatsApp-policy debacle, a myriad of more privacy-focused chat apps accept gained massive popularity in markets like India. Nosotros have seen downloads of such apps, including Indicate and Telegram, skyrocket following WhatsApp's privacy policy update. At present, a recent study has revealed that most Indians are using or prefer using multiple messaging apps instead of sticking to 1.

The study conducted past inquiry and analytics firm techARC showed that many Indians have now adopted the trend of using multiple messaging apps to communicate with each other. This might include apps like Wire, Betoken, Threema, and other such secure messaging apps along with WhatsApp.

"Users have figured out a definite reason to be on dissimilar messaging apps. More than than 85% of the respondents had a specific purpose for showing the beliefs of using multiple apps," reads a user insights research written report by techARC.

The report states that users have been actively engaging with each other via dissimilar messaging apps several times a day. Due to this kind of beliefs, it was difficult to dig out a chief chat app for almost Indian users.

However, equally per the report, the majority of the population notwithstanding uses WhatsApp forth with the other apps. Then, the Facebook-endemic messaging app is however existence used by a major chunk of the Indian population, though user-trust for the app has been failing in the country.

"Though there is a articulate first-mover advantage for WhatsApp, users are increasingly signing up other platforms like Telegram and Signal for their unique features and ameliorate security they offering. With this futurity of messaging apps in Republic of india is going to be pluralistic in nature", said Faisal Kawoosa, the founder and Chief Analyst of techARC.