WhatsApp influence 1 billion milestone users; 42 billion messages transaction daily

Mobile messaging service, owned by Facebook WhatsApp has reached the landmark one-billion users, with 42 billion messages are exchanged daily, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced Tuesday.

"One billion people now use WhatsApp. There are only a few services that connect more than one billion people. This milestone is an important step in connecting the world", published in Facebook. In WhatsApp 1.6 billion photos and 250 million videos are shared every day in 53 languages.

"WhatsApp Community has more than doubled since joining Facebook. We added the ability for you to call loved ones far away. We dropped the subscription fee and made completely free WhatsApp," the 31-year-old founder of Facebook he added.

"Then we will work to connect more people around the world and make it easier to communicate with businesses."

Founded by Ukrainian immigrants to America Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009, WhatsApp was acquired by the social media giant Facebook for $ 19 billion in 2014. WhatsApp resigned his annual subscription fee because it has not worked well.

"For many years, we have asked some people pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we have grown, we have found that this approach has not worked well," WhatsApp said in a blog recently.

Despite not being able to charge their hundreds of millions of users of the annual fee, WhatsApp said not to subject their users to advertisements.

"Naturally, people might wonder how we plan to keep running WhatsApp no ​​subscription fees and if today's announcement means we are presenting advertisements from third parties. The answer is no."