Number of users of mobile messenger WhatsApp in the past four months has increased by 100 million, reaching 600 million people. This was announced in an official blog of the founder of Yang Kum service.
As noted by the developers of the messenger, 600 million people - it's not just the number of registered users, but actively using the service. We are talking about people who exploit the client each month. Of the number of active users is no one mobile messenger.
The closest competitors WhatsApp - Chinese and Korean WeChat Line - has not even reached the mark of 500 million users. Active audience Belarusian-Israeli Viber has reached 200 million. In terms of the audience ahead of WhatsApp and social network Twitter, which has about 250 million active users, but still lags far behind Facebook, which boasts an audience of 1.2 billion people.
Basic subscriber growth WhatsApp provided Russia, Brazil, Mexico and India. One of the reasons for the prevalence of the service is that the client, in addition to iOS, Android and Windows Phone, is also available on mobile systems, BlackBerry, Asha, S40, Symbian, Bada.
In Facebook, probably satisfied with their purchase. The world's largest social network paid for WhatsApp record $ 16 million. Number of active users in the Facebook surpassed 1.32 billion. Instagram photo-owned company gets to around 300 million active users and 600 million users in WhatsApp only complement this impressive picture.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp is preparing to acquire the support of voice communication. Now messenger allows only write messages and send photos, but soon will have the option to make calls. The voice call will first appear on the iPhone and Android, and then - on the Windows Phone devices, and some models of BlackBerry.