Comment by FirmwareBurner
2 years ago
> Signal has 40 million users as of 2022
How does Signal count it's active userbase? Like I said, me and almost everyone else I know have it installed but don't regularly use it because most people don't really like it versus the established Telegram and Whatsapp.
Signal is known to store two points of data per (hashed) phone number: the first login date, and the most recent login date. The second point is sufficient to get a user count.
Having a "most recent login" doesn't prove someone is an active user. I use it about once every two days, am I also an active users? Compare that to WhatsApp which most people use multiple times a day or even multiple times per hour, and you get the picture of how popular or lack thereof Signal is by comparison.
Like I said, a lot of people have Signal, but very few use it as their primary messenger on a regular basis, and more of a "it's just there in case one of those tech nerds who told me to install it decided to message me on"
"I use it about once every two days, am I also an active users?"
Yes. I think your definition of "active user" is non-standard.
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