WhatsApp Keeps the Ring, but a Video App Ties Telegram for the Second Verse

Some love stories end exactly how you knew they would, and then a stranger walks in and steals the second verse. The crowd on Morfi has given its verdict on the best social media app for staying connected: WhatsApp, at 30% consensus. No shock there. The twist is the second verse. On a ballot that asked about chat, groups and sharing with friends, the app listed second is TikTok, a video app, at 19%, and it's dead level with Telegram.

The rest of the ballot: 3 other sides. Telegram and Facebook Messenger are messengers in the purest sense, apps that exist so you can say goodnight to someone across an ocean. Still, the crowd rated a scroll of videos just as highly as Telegram, and ahead of Messenger. Maybe that's how connection works now: you don't text your friends, you send them a clip at two in the morning and call it a love letter. I've been that sender, and I'm not ashamed.

WhatsApp's own romance never wobbled. When the chart opened (Oct 29), it stood at 23% with TikTok at 20%. Since then it has drifted between 21% and 30%, and it led TikTok at every point on the chart. That held even with traders openly selling it. One of them, wen moon, wrote that the "numbers quietly look better than the price suggests", and Sarah K, also selling, said "i went looking for a reason not to and found a better reason to". They traded against WhatsApp, along with Hailey, and the leader still led TikTok at every point on the chart. 29 traders put $29,229 behind their opinions.

The brief explains the steady heartbeat at the top. As of May 2025, WhatsApp had 3 billion monthly active users, making it the most popular messenger app, according to Wikipedia, and by 2016 it had become the main way people communicated online across the Americas, the Indian subcontinent and big parts of Europe and Africa. That's why Telegram sitting only level with TikTok, not ahead of it, makes me wince a little: it had more than 1 billion monthly active users as of March 2025, and its public groups can hold up to 200,000 members, Wikipedia notes. If you want a group chat the size of a stadium, Telegram is the app for it, and the crowd still put it level with a video app.

Here's my opinion, from the late-night booth: this vote says something sweet and a little sad about us. WhatsApp is the steady partner who remembers your birthday, and we love it for that. But the crush, the thing we reach for when we want to feel close without having to type, is a video feed. The crowd didn't give a real messenger second place on its own. It put a video app right next to one, and that's the way we flirt now, and that's a song about connection where nobody actually says a word.

This verdict is in, but the argument goes on. If you think Telegram deserved better, or that Messenger got ghosted unfairly, the sellers have already shown that dissent is welcome. Join the market on Morfi and put your opinion where your heart is.