WhatsApp Crazy Stats: 700M Monthly Active Users, 30B Daily Messages
WhatsApp, of Facebook, is rising and rising at crazy speed. The company recently crossed 700M monthly active users, up from 600 million in August last year.
WhatsApp CEO and co-founder, Jan Koum writing in a Facebook post touted that the 700 million active users are able to send more than 30 billion messages everyday.
Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February for $16 billion - making it one of the largest deals in the Silicon Valley history. The messaging service is expected to top 1 billion users at a pace faster than Facebook.
"Over a five-year time frame," Facebook CEO, MarK Zuckerberg said last year, "we have a number of services which we think are well on their way to reaching 1 billion people: WhatsApp, Instagram and search are a number of them. And once we get to that scale, then we think that they will start to become meaningful businesses in their own right."
Koum added: " As humbled and excited as we are by these numbers and our continued growth, we're even more excited to keep building a great product in 2015."
WhatsApp is more popular in the Asian market than U.S., where messaging apps have recently come to prominence, as the smartphone adoption rate has increased. In countries like India, China, Indonesia and South Africa, the smartphone adoption rate is expected to rise further, increasing prominence of messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat even more.
In the post, Koum also promised to make WhatsApp better. Last year, WhatsApp had added encryption for messages sent between Android users, making those messages harder from being tracked or monitored.
