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| A staggering 900 MILLION people use WhatsApp to text and talk every month, the app founder confirmed |
WHATSAPP is getting close to hitting one BILLION monthly active users with its latest announcement.
WhatsApp this week passed 900 million monthly active users, according to founder Jan Koum.
The Ukrainian developer posted the news in a Facebook status update, tagged with the social network’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The staggering monthly user base comfortably makes WhatsApp the most popular messenger in the world, according to data from a number of statistic aggregators, including Statista, ATLAS and DMR.
WhatsApp allows users to send text, video and audio messages around the world over an internet connection.
The messenger, which is now offered on a yearly subscription plan of 69p, also offers Voice over IP calling, group chats and more.
WhatsApp bought by Facebook for an eye-watering $19billion last year. In April, WhatsApp announced it had passed 800 million.
Facebook also owns the second most successful mobile messaging app – its own Facebook Messenger.
WhatsApp now has 900 million monthly active users.
Posted by Jan Koum on Thursday, 3 September 2015
The standalone cross-platform chat app currently has some 700million monthly users.
Facebook recently announced that for the first time ever – one billion people accessed Facebook on the same day.
That works out at a staggering one in every seven people on Earth logging in and using the US social service.
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| Facebook is in control of the two most popular mobile messaging apps, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger |
Facebook stripped out the ability to send messages from its main mobile app last summer.
As a result Facebook Messenger skyrocketed to the top of mobile app charts on iOS and Android.
WeChat ranks as the globe’s third most popular mobile messaging service, with some 600million monthly active users.
Vibe and LINE Messenger rank fourth and fifth, followed by Skype, Tango and Kik.
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