WhatsApp now has 1 billion users
WhatsApp now has 1 billion users. The communications platform has seen a meteoric rise in its userbase over the last year, adding 500 million new users. More recently, WhatsApp announced that it would be eliminating the annual subscription fee entirely, relying on connecting businesses with customers for monetization.
From Mark Zuckerberg:
How many of you use WhatsApp regularly?
Source: WhatsApp blog
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