New record set by WhatsApp Inc.

WhatsApp Inc. has announced record user numbers, after revealing that the service just processed 27 billion messages over a 24 hour period. That’s seriously up on its previous best of 18 billion from the final day of 2012.

The messaging app allows users to send free text and multimedia messages to individuals or groups. It is available for a range of devices and platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Asha, Symbian and more.

new daily record: 10B+ msgs sent (inbound) and 17B+ msgs received (outbound) by our users = 27 Billion msgs handled in just 24 hours!
— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) June 12, 2013

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum recently revealed that the company has more than 200 million active monthly users. That makes it larger than Twitter and it’s fair to say it is leading the mobile messaging industry at this point.