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The social distancing efforts amid the ongoing pandemic has led to an expected increase in social media usage for New Year's Eve, with Facebook claiming to have observed the most calls made in a single day on WhatsApp. For the holidays impacted by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook saw its typical high usage spikes over New Year's Eve. In a year dominated by people working from home and using technological means to stay in touch, the social network saw an increase of the use of its services for that night, prompted by people staying at home instead of going out so...

WhatsApp sets new record with 1.4 billion voice, video calls on New Year’s Eve WhatsApp’s parent platform's Messenger also witnessed a surge in video calls as well as group video calls (MINT_PRINT) Share Via Read Full Story Facebook has revealed some statistics about the amount of calls that the instant messaging application WhatsApp conducted on its platform of New Year’s Eve. Unsurprisingly, the platform registered the highest ever number of calls on its platform on a single day. WhatsApp has registered over 1.4 billion voice and video calls on the New Year’s Eve globally. Facebook...