article_snippet: WhatsApp has overtaken traditional mobile phone texts for the first time as users send 30 billion messages every.
article_snippet: Its growing popularity saw people send 30 billion WhatsApp messages a day last year, compared to 20 billion SMS text messages, according to research by The Economist.
article_snippet: WhatsApp has overtaken traditional mobile phone texts for the first time as users sent 30 billion messages every day .
article_snippet: WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly users and claims WhatsApp is currently registering one million new users a day .
article_snippet: WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly users and claims WhatsApp is currently registering one million new users a day.
highlights_snippet: WhatsApp users sent 30bn messages last year compared to 20bn texts .
  