WhatsApp Cross the 900 Million Milestones

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced in a facebook publish that the cellular messaging app has reached 900 million lively month-to-month customers after one hundred million new human beings signed up to the carrier in the ultimate 5 months.

The facebook-owned business enterprise introduced returned in January that it had reached the seven-hundred million person landmark, reaching 800 million simply three months later. At this rate, WhatsApp looks set to healthy its parent’s 1 billion month-to-month energetic customers landmark quite quickly, possibly within this yr. The new figures places the range of WhatsApp customers ahead of facebook’s very own messaging provider.

Fb COO Sheryl Sandberg additionally congratulated Koum in a post saying “900 million people now use WhatsApp every month to live in touch with own family and pals round the world. Congratulations to Jan Koum and everyone at WhatsApp on achieving this brilliant milestone and for nonetheless locating time to make us all chortle.”

facebook obtained WhatsApp in February closing year for an eye-watering $19 billion greenbacks, its most high-priced buyout to this point and the second one biggest tech acquisition ever, dropping out best to HP's acquisition of Compaq, at $33.4 billion.

In January the cellular messaging app released WhatsApp web - a computing device net consumer that mirrors conversations from the cell app - on Android, windows phone and Blackberry. The provider become lately delivered to iOS in spite of the business enterprise previously claiming “Apple platform boundaries” might prevent it from doing so.

WhatsApp is speedy taking over from texting as the primary way of cellular communique for lots human beings. The app has visible large increase in developing markets which includes Brazil, Russia and particularly India, which accounted for 70 million of WhatsApp’s customers in Novemeber.