‘WhatsApp now has 900 mn monthly active users’

Mobile messaging app WhatsApp now has 900 million regular and active users around the world, following the addition of 100 million users in last five months. “WhatsApp now has 900 million monthly active users,” WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in a Facebook post. In February last year, WhatsApp was acquired by social networking site Facebook, its biggest buyout till date, for a whopping $19 billion. 

In his post, Koum also tagged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who promptly put up a post congratulating him on the milestone.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also congratulated <g data-gr-id="12">Koum</g> in a post saying “900 million people now use WhatsApp every month to stay in touch with family and friends around the world. Congratulations to Jan Koum and everyone at WhatsApp on reaching this incredible milestone — and for still finding time to make us all laugh.” Previously, WhatsApp has said its service has seen strong uptake, <g data-gr-id="14">specially</g> across developing nations like Brazil, India and Russia.