WhatsApp grows to 700 million monthly active users, 30 billion messages sent each day

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Investors continue to express their uneasiness with Facebook’s decision to purchase mobile messaging app WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion early last year. WhatsApp, meanwhile, continues to rake in users at a rate that makes the acquisition look less foolish as each day goes by.

This past August, WhatsApp revealed that it had crossed the 600 million monthly active user milestone. The company has since added another 100 million monthly active users, bringing the total number to an impressive 700 million. Given its relatively low adoption rate in the US, there’s still plenty of potential growth at hand.

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum added that those 700 million monthly active users are collectively sending more than 30 billion messages each day which equates to more than four messages each day for every single human on the planet. That’s a staggering figure no matter how you slice it.

Facebook shocked investors and the tech world alike when it agreed to purchase the red-hot messaging app for $16 billion last February (that’s not counting the additional $3 billion in restricted stock units). The app has continued to add users at a blistering pace, no doubt good news for Zuckerberg.

Facebook now enjoys 1.35 billion users, WhatsApp has 700 million, Messenger has 500 million and Instagram has 300 million. I mention that because Mark Zuckerberg owns all of these properties. If you haven't tried WhatsApp, you can download it here.

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Dropped this app the moment Facebook bought them out. No matter what they publicly say, you know they're associating users to facebook accounts and linking all that juicy data together.

No one seems to care about their privacy anymore.
 
Everyone one I know is now using whatsapp. It is very common here in India. The only backlash for fb would be some people have ditched fb for whatsapp.
 
I use it regular in the UK as do my friends the reason I use it its free to send pics not like my operator wanting to charge if I send them veer normal MMS.
fb is to intrusive and moving people away from privacy
 
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