If you use a smartphone, WhatsApp is one of the important applications in the application drawer. The application has become the quintessential messenger to communicate with peers, be it a casual remark or a group to discuss office matters. The application has been gaining new members over the years and has now reached an important milestone: there are over one billion active users on WhatsApp.
Yes, your favorite messaging platform has more than one billion people who use it on any given day. The number of users who are active on the platform on a monthly basis is around 1.3 billion, according to the company.
With so many active users in the app, the company says it witnesses 55 billion messages exchanged with contacts, which is an astounding number for a messaging app to achieve. In addition, there are more than 4.5 billion photos and one billion videos exchanged on the messaging platform, demonstrating that WhatsApp is one of the top media exchange platforms.
WhatsApp has been adding a number of features convenient to the platform since it was taken by Facebook. The ability to make VoIP calls was added to the platform, followed by video call features as well as text formatting, send any file, read receipts and more. WhatsApp says that they will add additional features to the platform for the convenience of users.
