Feb
04
2016

One billion people are using WhatsApp.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook, said it reached 1 billion users.

“We’re excited to see how far we’ve come,” WhatsApp said in a blog post on Monday. “But now, it’s back to work — because we still have another 6 billion people to get on WhatsApp, and a long way left to go.”

All in, Facebook paid $22 billion for WhatsApp. It bought the messaging service in February 2014.

WhatsApp has not yet figured out how it plans to make money. The service said this month it would no longer charge 99 cents for subscriptions after the first year of use. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during an earnings call with investors last week that WhatsApp may explore making money from discussions between users and businesses.

WhatsApp released news of the 1 billion-user milestone during Alphabet’s quarterly earnings call with analysts. During that call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Gmail had reached 1 billion users. (Source: www.usatoday.com)

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