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The number of WhatsApp users has exceeded 900 million

Messenger WhatsApp demonstrates new achievements. The number of active users the app has exceeded 900 million people. About this on his page in Facebook wrote the CEO and co-founder of service Jan koum.

In January the service WhatsApp was about 700 million monthly active users by April of this year the audience of the messenger rose to 800 million If the growth rate continues, by the end of 2015 the number of WhatsApp users will reach 1 billion people.

For Mark Zuckerberg overcoming this level will become a matter of honor. After the purchase of WhatsApp last year for $19 billion, he said with confidence that the number of users of the purchased service will exceed 1 billion people. According to the Executive Director of Facebook, starting with this mark, the service will begin to contribute to the implementation of the adopted business model.

Despite the paid annual subscription of $ 1, WhatsApp is much more popular than its closest competitors – the Chinese WeChat and Line Korean, each of which has more than 400 million users. Alternative applications Viber and Tango are about 250 million people.

Today, Facebook has two messenger, which are used in parallel. One built-in to the online portal and mobile applications associated with them, second, WhatsApp, works by itself, under its own name and through the efforts of his own team, but with the full support of the social network.

According to J’son & Partners Consulting, mobile apps for messaging are becoming increasingly popular, and the number of SMS through the cellular network, drops sharply. Russian mobile operators in 2014 missed about 15-20 billion profit from instant messengers and VoIP services-communication, which include WhatsApp, Viber and Skype. The company has not yet decided how to compensate for these losses.

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