WhatsApp claims 400 million active users is fed up of others bogus numbers
WhatsApp, the popular mobile instant messaging service, claims to have 400 million monthly active users.WhatsApps CEO, Jan Koum in a blog postrevealed the news and also noted that the company added 100 million active users in the last four months alone. The blog post said, "Our goal in creating WhatsApp was to empower people through technology and communication, no matter who they are, or where they live. 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 isnt a count of people who just registered for WhatsApp - its the number of people who are actively using the service every single month." The mobile focused messaging company told AllThingsD that WhatsApp wants to turn the discussions of the shared numbers by other mobile instant messaging services to be about active users and not registered users. AllThingsD quotes Koum, ...