According to a report released by Apptopia WhatsApp users spent a cumulative of 85 billion hours using the Facebook-owned messaging app in the past three months.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports that the data released by the US-based app analytics company showed that people globally spent 85 billion hours on WhatsApp that has 1.5 billion users.
Put into perspective, this is 3.5 billion days or over nine million years — 9,582,650 years to be precise. This means that every human being on the planet spent 11.425 hours on the app in the period.
Conversely, users spent 31 billion hours on its parent company Facebook.
“It’s clear that WhatsApp is the global messaging app of choice,” Apptopia’s spokesperson Adam Blacker was quoted by Forbes as saying.
“Apps having to do with communication take up most of our time spent on our mobile apps,” Blacker added.
The top 10 apps overall in terms of time spent globally are WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook, Messenger, Pandora, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Google Maps and Spotify.
The data does not put into consideration all of China’s third-party Android app stores, or WeChat and other China-focused apps would very likely top the standings. Even so, WeChat is in second place overall, the report said.
Four of the top 10 apps by time spent are Facebook’s Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Google is a leader as well, with YouTube and Google Maps in the top 10 apps by time spent overall.
Gamers were not left out in the report and users 3.31 billion hours playing Candy Crush Saga. Among the games, Clash of Clans topped the list with 3.83 billion hours time spent followed by My Talking Tom, Candy Crush Saga, Fortnite, Lords Mobile, Subway Surfers, Helix Jump, Slither.io, PUBG Mobile and Fishdom.
According to market research company eMarketer, American adults spend an average of more than three and a half hours a day on their mobile devices. In countries like Nigeria that are basically mobile-first and others that are mobile-only, with very low PC penetration, that’s likely to be even higher.
According to Apptopia, it gets its numbers by being integrated into hundreds of thousands of apps, allowing it to see performance data globally.