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September 4, 2015

WhatsApp reaches 900 monthly users milestone

by John_A

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It would seem that many of us are quite familiar with the mobile messaging app, WhatsApp, considering it has just reached the milestone of 900 million monthly users. The achievement was announced by WhatsApp founder, Jan Koum, via a Facebook post. Coincidentally, Facebook purchased WhatsApp last year for around $19 billion.

Jan Koum   WhatsApp now has 900 million monthly active users.This means that WhatsApp has gained around 100 million users since April this year. Android fans make up the bulk of WhatsApp users, managing over a billion downloads while iOS accounts for just 22% of active users. Bringing features such as WhatsApp Web to Android users and most recently, iOS users has no doubt helped the proliferation of the Facebook-owned messaging app.

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