WhatsApp is a major hit in Africa; even WhatsApp MODs are more popular than Facebook

WhatsApp is most popular social media messaging platform across world with a massive 1.6 billion monthly active users. It is w revealed messaging app is, by far, top social media platform of choice in most African countries.

WhatsApp is t only kwn for its ease of use, but it also carries an appeal as a one-stop-shop with features like group chats and ability to send various multimedia elements along with text messs using a Lite interface. WhatsApp furr became a VoIP giant with its free-calling service, apart from offering many or features like video calling and voice messs. All of se features have been a major hit in continent. In Zimbabwe, messaging platform had accounted for nearly half of overall internet data back in 2017.

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WhatsApp MODs take away from number of downloads on Application stores

As it appears, platform’s overwhelming popularity among users has been quite under-reported. This could be mainly due to modified versions of app which are available from third-party developers. se apps have also seen a significant increase in terms of us in African continent.

apps, kwn as ‘WhatsApp MODs’, are generally shared directly from one handset to ar and can also be downloaded from several sources or than Play Store or App Store. Due to this reason, those WhatsApp MODs do t appear in download lists of official app stores, taking away from number of actual downloads. An obvious reason for high uptake of se modified WhatsApp versions is wider range of features that y offer as opposed to original version.

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WhatsApp MOD is more popular in Africa than Facebook

GB WhatsApp, for example, is most commonly used WhatsApp MOD in most of African continent. It lets people use multiple accounts on a single app and also allows m to restore deleted messs. Additionally, it also offers ability to send and receive bigger multimedia files of up to 50 megabytes compared to just 16 megabytes on original version. Besides, re are a few or privacy features that attract larger downloads. GB WhatsApp is so popular in continent that people use it more often than Facebook app.

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