WhatsApp Messenger is one of the most popular text messaging systems on the planet, its presence on almost all mobile platforms giving it the opportunity to develop enormously in recent years. This development helped the company to bring WhatsApp Messenger in many of the active smartphones on the market, too at the moment there is 250 million monthly active users. In December, WhatsApp reported the existence of 200 million active users, and 6 months later it managed to add another 50 million users, being close to reaching the Skype platform.
WhatsApp tells The Wall Street Journal it has more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed a rough number of users for its popular smartphone messaging app. The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms and possibly bigger than Twitter, which in December announced it had eclipsed 200 million monthly active users. Microsoft in October said its video-chat service Skype had 280 million monthly active users.
In October, Microsoft announced that it has 280 million active users on the Skype platform, however WhatsApp Messenger it could surpass them by the end of the year if the development continues at the same pace. At the moment, WhatApp Messenger is the main competitor of iMessage, BBM, FaceBook Messenger, Viber, Skype, etc., but considering its adoption rate, it is hard to believe that any competitor will be able to stop it. In Romania, WhatsApp Messenger occupies the first position in the top of the most purchased applications for more than 2 years, its popularity being undeniable.
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Description: WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform smartphone messenger currently available for iPhone and all other smartphones. The application utilizes push notifications to instantly get messages from friends, co...
