WhatsApp now has 500m active users sharing 700m photos a day

Messaging app After Facebook buying the company, WhatsApp for 19 billion, they have  now have 500 million  active users, having added 70 million. WhatsApp reached 25 million active user in the June 2013, then reached 300 million within two month. In the months the company was processing 11 billion inbound and 20 billion outbound messages a day, while users were sharing 325 million photos a day.

By December 2013, WhatsApp had 400 million active users, and now four months later it has 500 million. At the start of April, the company tweeted that it had just processed 20 billion inbound and 44 billion outbound messages in a 24-hour period.

"In the last few months, we’ve grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia, and our users are also sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day," wrote WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum in a blog post.

In short, WhatsApp has doubled its daily message and photo counts since August 2013, while adding 200m active users in that eight-month period.

Facebook is focused on further growth following its acquisition, though: "WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1bn people," said its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as he announced the deal in February.

"WhatsApp is the only widely used app we've ever seen that have more engagement in a higher percent of people using it daily than Facebook itself," he added in a subsequent call with analysts. "Internet services that reach a billion people are all incredibly valuable, and we believe WhatsApp will be as well."

I think that Facebook will make lot of money of the uses of the whatsapps generating more people to the apps sites. this will help the business lot, brand image,  reputation  and sales of downloads. both of these companies will make lot of money of the millions of users, the uses of users sending photos and messages to each other can help the businesses.It has now allow them to expand their business and increase sales and reputation for the business. So Facebook can target more people to use their service in the future as their rivals and competition are not near the WhatsApps.