Popular mobile App WhatsApp said it is being used by
700 million people every month, up from 600 million in August. The company's
CEO Jan Koum wrote in a Facebook post that users are sending 30 billion
messages per day.
The figure makes the messaging app one of the
world's largest social networks, bigger than Twitter's 284 million or even the
photo-sharing service Instagram, which counted 300 million users last month.
Facebook itself, however, is still bigger, and
tallies 1.3 billion users signing in every month.
The latest numbers could help Facebook placate
investors' fears about its acquisition strategy, despite the 19 billion dollar
purchase price being one of the largest deals in the history of Silicon Valley.
Facebook has however, begun to feel pressure from
investors struggling to accept CEO Mark Zuckerberg's view that his growing list
of acquired businesses and services won't become meaningful until they hit the
one billion mark.
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