WhatsApp Now Has 430 Million Active Users
Even as the new instant messaging apps are gaining popularity, WhatsApp maintains its lead, and has now surpassed 430 million active users. It also clarifies it will not going after "gimmicks" or "advertisements".
WhatsApp now has 430 million active users, and has added 30 million users in the last couple of months. WhatsApp now sees about 50 billion messages sent and received on a daily basis.
Despite such impressive figures and influx of new instant messaging apps such as Line, WeChat, KakaoTalk and Snapchat, WhatsApp says it will not be showing advertisements. “We just want to focus on messaging. If people want to play games there are plenty of other sites and also a lot of great companies building services around advertising,” TechCrunch quotes co-founder and CEO Jan Koum as saying.
