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Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by Sunymoore(m): 11:22am On Dec 25, 2013 |
A few short years ago, my friend Brian and I set out to build a messaging service with a single focus: best possible user experience. We bet that if our team of engineers could make messaging fast, simple, and personal, we could charge people directly for the service without having to rely on annoying banner ads, game promotions, or all those other distracting “features” that come with many messaging apps. Today, we’re proud to announce that because of you, WhatsApp has reached a milestone that no other mobile messaging service has achieved: 400 million monthly active users, with 100 million active users added in the last four months alone. This isn’t a count of people who just registered for WhatsApp – it’s the number of people who are actively using the service every single month. When we say that you made this possible, we mean it. WhatsApp has just 50 employees, and most of us are engineers. We’ve arrived at this point without spending a dollar on targeted ads or big marketing campaigns. We’re here because of all the people who share their WhatsApp stories with co- workers, friends, and loved ones – stories we love to hear. There was the woman from New Zealand who moved to South Africa to complete her PhD. The week before she left to go back home, she met the man of her dreams. Despite living thousands of miles apart, she told us that WhatsApp has allowed them to feel closer than ever. We also heard from a British woman who runs a charity in Uganda. She told us that her team on the ground uses WhatsApp to send daily reports, photos, and videos of the children they’re helping, which she shares to build support for her organization all over the world. Doctors in India are using WhatsApp to instantly send electrocardiogram pictures of patients who’ve suffered heart attacks, saving valuable time and potentially lives. In the mountains of Madrid , rescuers used WhatsApp to locate and save lost hikers. And today, as I follow the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine, the place where I was born and lived until the age of sixteen, I can’t help but hope that the next great WhatsApp story will be about people using the service to speak their mind and stand up for their basic rights. Our goal in creating WhatsApp was to empower people through technology and communication, no matter who they are, or where they live. We wanted to improve people’s lives in some small way. So thank you for making that possible. Thank you for sharing your stories, and please, keep them coming – we can’t wait to hear what you’ll use WhatsApp for next. http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stories/ |
Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by oluwadartey: 11:29am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Whatsapp is very fast kena.... the platform is making plenty sense and with Just 50 engineers.. more grease to Ur elbows |
Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by jayseehe(m): 11:31am On Dec 25, 2013 |
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Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by deswords(m): 12:41pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
wat abt bbm? |
Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by Tbillz(m): 1:49pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
2Go 150million#nigerians |
Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by michaelo2(m): 4:16pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
not my biz. |
Re: Whatsapp Now Has 400 Million Active Users by Justiyke4u: 6:02pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
And still counting... |
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