WhatsApp Sends One Billion Messages Per Day

It has taken a long time, but text messaging has finally become popular in the United States. Unfortunately, the mobile carriers still want to charge ridiculously high prices for text messaging plans, and with more people now using smartphones, Internet-based messaging apps are becoming popular. Messaging apps like WhatsApp Messenger and Apple’s iMessage provide text messaging like services but use the Internet and therefore eliminate the cost of text messaging plans.

In a blog post WhatsApp announced that they had sent over one billion messages in a single day, which is a significant number for a messaging service.