Digital 2014: WhatsApp Reaches 600 Million Users
Jon Russell just alerted us to a tweet from WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum that reveals the service's latest active user numbers – and an impressive new milestone:
For context, WhatsApp only just passed the 500 million mark back in April, which means the service is currently growing by an astonishing 800,000 new active users every day - that's more than 9 every second.
WeChat continues to impress too, with 438 million users, the majority of whom are still in China.
LINE and KakaoTalk also appear to be growing, although neither service reports monthly active user numbers, so direct comparisons are tricky.
Similarly, Jon reports that Tango now has 70 million active users, while Viber – another favourite in APAC – has around 100 million active users.
This article first appeared on the We Are Social blog under a different title.