New Delhi: WhatsApp has reached the 800 million monthly active users mark on Friday, retaining its position of being one of the largest platforms for messaging around the globe.
CEO of the Facebook-owned messaging service, Jan Koum took to the social network to announce the news and clarified that active and registered users were not the same thing, a subtle reminder to the media to be cautious while reporting the figures.
A Cnet report notes that the WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for a whopping $19 billion last October and since then, it has seen consistent growth. The latest 800 million monthly active user mark is up from the earlier 700 million in January and 600 million last August.
The messenger service lets you send text, pictures, voice messages, to other users of the app for free. Recently, the service added voice calling feature to allow users to place calls over the Internet. This latest addition is expected to take on the likes of Skype and Viber.
The 800 million monthly active users mark puts WhatsApp in the lead position of being one of the largest social services around. Other social services like Twitter reported a user base of 288 million active users/month, while Instagram noted its monthly user base at 300 million. Parent Facebook reported an average of 1.39 billion monthly active users as of December last year.
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WhatsApp – now serving 800,000,000 monthly active users. Reminder for the press out there: active and registered users are not the same thing 
Posted by Jan Koum on Friday, April 17, 2015
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