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More Than One Billion People Use Facebook's WhatsApp Service Every Day (whatsapp.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tremendous-growth dept.

Facebook has announced that more than one billion people use its instant messages and voice calling app WhatsApp every day. To put that in perspective, there are 7.5 billion people on this planet. And Facebook, whose marquee service itself is used by more than two billion people every month, says that 13.3 percent of the world's population is using Whatsapp every day.

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  1. More Lies by avandesande · · Score: 3, Funny

    They also claimed that 85% of all people over 15 in USA use facefart at least one time per month

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    1. Re:More Lies by Sindar+By+Choice · · Score: 2

      They also claimed that 85% of all people over 15 in USA use facefart at least one time per month

      I think it's closer to 90%.

  2. Point of View by sanf780 · · Score: 2

    I am amazed that there are over thousand million active mobile phone lines. Wow, mobile internet is almost everywhere.

  3. How much revenue? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2

    When it came out it wanted 1 $ a year. I think I snagged a deal of 3$ for 5 years. How much it costs to provide the service, does it generate any revenue, are there any profits?

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