Global smartphone messaging service WhatsApp confirmed on Tuesday that it has more than 200 million active users of its service every month. CEO Jan Koum refused to be more specific than that, but he did brag that his company has more monthly users than another prominent mobile company.
“We’re bigger than Twitter today,” he said at Dive into Mobile. “More than 200 million active users monthly.”
Those people are also sending a lot of messages: WhatsApp users get 8 billion inbound messages per day and receive over 12 billion per day.
The app, which is on iOS and Android, came to prominence because it allows cross-platform messaging; like if you could send an iMessage to anyone regardless of the mobile operating system they are using.
Koum said WhatsApp has a global focus and that the app is big everywhere, but he said that it is most popular in Germany, Spain, the Latin America region, Mexico, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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