WhatsApp Tops 800M MAUs
Facebook-owned cross-platform messaging application WhatsApp continued its growth surge, topping 800 million monthly active users late last week.
Facebook-owned cross-platform messaging application WhatsApp continued its growth surge, topping 800 million monthly active users late last week.
Facebook director and WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum announced the milestone in a Facebook post late Friday, writing (unedited):
WhatsApp — now serving 800,000,000 monthly active users. Reminder for the press out there: active and registered users are not the same thing
The news of 800 million MAUs for WhatsApp illustrates its steady growth, following other recent milestones:
- 1 billion Android downloads, reached last month.
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