The WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has come out and said that WhatsApp now boasts over 250 million active monthly users, which is up from the 200 million that was implied for the platform just two months ago. At the time, Koum had said that WhatsApp had more users than Twitter, and Twitter had said that its active user base was around 200 million.
The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms and possibly bigger than Twitter, which in December announced it had eclipsed 200 million monthly active users.
At the time, Koum also said that WhatsApp was processing 18 billion messages per day, and that number peaked recently at 25 billion messages in one day. Those are all very impressive numbers, especially when you take into account WhatsApp has only been around for 4 years, although to be fair, the trend to move away from SMS has been a very recent one.
Source: WSJ
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