WhatsApp is by far the most used messaging network on the planet, the application owned by the company Facebook reaching 2018 billion monthly active users at the beginning of 1.5. The information was confirmed by the president of the Facebook company, Mark Zuckerberg, last night and represents an increase of 200 million users compared to what was announced in July for it.
WhatsApp has grown so much that it has reached the same number of monthly active users that YouTube He recorded it in the summer of 2017 and it is possible that the difference between the platforms has decreased considerably. If WhatsApp falls behind YouTube in terms of the number of monthly active users on the platform, it is clear that people's interest is directed towards such applications.
WhatsApp also has a lot of people who are interested in the stories published by various users, it being surpassed in popularity for this segment only by Instagram. Each has over 300 million active users who publish stories, but Instagram has slightly more active people compared to WhatsApp for now.
"WhatsApp recently crossed 1.5 billion monthly actives, with people sending more than 60 billion messages every day. A growing number of these messages are between people and companies, which is why we launched WhatsApp Business. The growth of Stories will have an impact on how we build products and think about our business, including WhatsApp and Instagram, which are the #1 and #2 most-used Stories products in the world."
WhatsApp was bought in 2014 by Facebook for 19 billion dollars when it had only a quarter of the number of active users at the moment, everyone criticizing the Americans' decision. Well, in the end it turns out to be a good one, and now Facebook wants to make money from WhatsApp, already taking part of the users' information and preparing to ask for money from companies.
