WhatsApp Users Made Over 1.4 Bln Calls on New Year’s Eve

WhatsApp revealed on Monday that over 1.4 billion voice and video calls were made on New Year’s Eve 2020 globally, the most ever calls made in a day on WhatsApp.

Also, New Year’s Eve 2020 was the biggest day ever for Messenger group video calls ''3+ people'' in the US, with nearly double more group video calls on NYE compared to the average day. Talking about Instagram and Facebook Live, there were over 55 million live broadcasts across Facebook and Instagram globally on New Year’s Eve.

Moreover, Facebook announced the details on its blog where it gave a breakdown of how people all across the globe used its apps to celebrate the New Year together even when apart due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

Meanwhile, Caitlin Banford the technical program manager at Facebook explained that New Year’s Eve looked a lot different, and we had engineering teams across Facebook’s apps, ready to support any issue. On other hand, Banford added that Facebook Engineering came together to drive unprecedented efficiency improvements and make the overall infrastructure more resilient. This included load testing, disaster recovery testing.