Cross platform messaging app WhatsApp is now claiming to be bigger than Twitter.
In March 2013, Twitter had announced it has more than 200 million active users sending over 400 million tweets every day. The number of WhatsApp users is more than 200 million. The messaging app now handles over 20 billion messages per day. These messages constitute 8 billion inbound messages and 12 million outbound messages.
The WhatsApp team had less than 50 engineers, which likely translates to the highest ratio of active users per long-term employee today for any active tech company today.
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app. As of now, this application is free to download on all platforms except iOS, where the app costs Rs. 55 ($0.99). For non-iOS platforms, the app is free to use for one year, after which it costs Rs. 55 per year. On iOS, the app is free to use for life after the initial download fee.
In the recent past, there have been news reports that suggest WhatsApp will be bracing subscription-based model for iOS as well by the end of 2013.
In the last six months, there have been lot of speculations regarding Facebook and Google trying to acquire WhatsApp. The company so far has maintained that it is not in talks to sell the company.
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