Social networking giant Facebook acquired the messaging giant WhatsApp in 2014. Ever since, both the giants are killing it together. The app’s founder Jan Koum announced on Facebook that it has now reached 900 million monthly active users (MAU) mark. It was just less than five months ago that the company had reached the 800 million mark. This clearly indicates growth of a 100 million in just 5 months. The number is getting closer to that of Facebook, which announced 1.49 billion MAUs in June this year.
The leading app in the instant messaging space has been downloaded a billion times over android, so this new growth figure is absolutely not surprising. If the app crosses a billion user mark, it would have just taken less than seven years for it to touch that milestone. Lesser in comparison with Facebook which took 8 years to land there.
In the announcements Facebook made this year in its second quarter, it announced that its monthly active user base had grown to 1.49 billion, the daily active user base being 968 million. But the interesting fact in here is that 655 million users accessed Facebook only on their mobile phones.
This, along with WhatsApp’s growth clearly shows us that this phenomenon is a result of the growing smartphone market on the face of the earth. Adding onto it, it is now even percolating in the web section.
The instant messaging app has kept adding more and more users, and has been rising in numbers especially in the Android market. It is now holding the pole position in the messaging space, which has new additions every now and then. It is in competition with its parent company’s own Messenger, WeChat, Line and dozens more. It gets difficult to compare their user base as most of them do not reveal their figures.
This virtual world that we live in now, has completely changed the way we communicate or socialize. There are even times when you’re lazy to communicate to someone in an adjacent room, and we ‘WhatsApp’ them instead. The free-calling service over the Internet has also probably helped the app increase its popularity, as one doesn’t have to pay the telecom company to make calls anymore. International calls have now become free just because of WhatsApp, which was a distant dream at a point in time.
On how lives have changed with people sleeping with phones in hand and waking up to desperately look out for the phones first thing in the morning, the figures which WhatsApp released in January this year will shed more light on; 30 billion messages are sent over WhatsApp each day.
The fortunes of the app, which was founded by two former Yahoo employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum have certainly changed for good after being taken over by the big daddy-Facebook. At this pace, how much more will people glue on to their phones to communicate, and how much more will the virtual world grow, none can ever tell!
The leading app in the instant messaging space has been downloaded a billion times over android, so this new growth figure is absolutely not surprising. If the app crosses a billion user mark, it would have just taken less than seven years for it to touch that milestone. Lesser in comparison with Facebook which took 8 years to land there.
In the announcements Facebook made this year in its second quarter, it announced that its monthly active user base had grown to 1.49 billion, the daily active user base being 968 million. But the interesting fact in here is that 655 million users accessed Facebook only on their mobile phones.
This, along with WhatsApp’s growth clearly shows us that this phenomenon is a result of the growing smartphone market on the face of the earth. Adding onto it, it is now even percolating in the web section.
The instant messaging app has kept adding more and more users, and has been rising in numbers especially in the Android market. It is now holding the pole position in the messaging space, which has new additions every now and then. It is in competition with its parent company’s own Messenger, WeChat, Line and dozens more. It gets difficult to compare their user base as most of them do not reveal their figures.
This virtual world that we live in now, has completely changed the way we communicate or socialize. There are even times when you’re lazy to communicate to someone in an adjacent room, and we ‘WhatsApp’ them instead. The free-calling service over the Internet has also probably helped the app increase its popularity, as one doesn’t have to pay the telecom company to make calls anymore. International calls have now become free just because of WhatsApp, which was a distant dream at a point in time.
On how lives have changed with people sleeping with phones in hand and waking up to desperately look out for the phones first thing in the morning, the figures which WhatsApp released in January this year will shed more light on; 30 billion messages are sent over WhatsApp each day.
The fortunes of the app, which was founded by two former Yahoo employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum have certainly changed for good after being taken over by the big daddy-Facebook. At this pace, how much more will people glue on to their phones to communicate, and how much more will the virtual world grow, none can ever tell!
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