WhatsApp Now Has 600 Million Monthly Active Users

Facebook's investment in WhatsApp is looking more and more promising.



WhatsApp now has more than 600 million monthly active users, according to a tweet from CEO and cofounder Jan Koum late Sunday night. That's up from the roughly 450 million it had in February when Facebook first announced plans to acquire the messaging service for $16 billion with another $3 billion in restricted stock units for employees kicked in for good measure.

See also: What's WhatsApp and Why Did Facebook Pay $16 Billion for It?

Now serving 600,000,000 monthly active users. Yes, active and registered are very different types of numbers... Read more...

— jan koum (@jankoum) August 25, 2014

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