Mark Zuckerberg, the chief and co-founder of leading social network Facebook, has said that Facebook-owned smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has hit the billion-user mark.
Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page "One billion people now use WhatsApp.There are only a few services that connect more than a billion people."
Google's free email service, Gmail, is the latest of the Internet giant's offerings to crest the billion-user mark, chief Sundar Pichai said Monday during an earnings call.
The ranks of people using WhatsApp have more than doubled since California-based Facebook bought the service for $19 billion in late 2014, according to Zuckerberg.
"That's nearly one-in-seven people on Earth who use WhatsApp each month to stay in touch with their loved ones, their friends and their family," the WhatsApp team said in a blog post.
After buying WhatsApp, Facebook made the service completely free. The next step, according to Zuckerberg, is to make it easier to use the service to communicate with businesses.
Weaving WhatsApp into exchanges between businesses and customers has the potential to create revenue opportunity for Facebook.
Recent media reports have indicated that Facebook is working behind the scenes to integrate WhatsApp more snugly into the world's leading social network by providing the ability to share information between the services.
Congrats to Mark, thank God for a beautiful day with good health
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Weldon mark.
ReplyDeleteCool.
ReplyDeleteHardly use watsapp.
ReplyDeleteIf not for some ogbanje friends of mine dt chose nt 2communicate with anytng other watsapp...i cld go 2months as my last seen.
Nonetheless...its a welcomed development
Lmao @ Ogbanje friends.
DeleteThanks for the laugh this morning. Lol
LMAO @ Ogbanje friends.
DeleteNice one and kudos to zuckerberg.
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...more money to him.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm,Nogerians alone suppose give you that number
ReplyDeleteSo you know this? Hahahahahahahahajahahahahaha. Nigerians can use whatsapp eh....
DeleteCongrats, Una try well well.
ReplyDeleteMark, am up 4 adoption ooh.
ReplyDeleteAre you up for fucking?
DeleteWaoh.....Mark Zuckerberg is super rich.
ReplyDeleteA billion.
ReplyDeletewow
Awwwwwwwwwww. I love Whatsapp.
ReplyDeleteHe should remove the "last seen", "online" ish tho.
You can remove it yourself just go to settings but there is a clause if people can't see your last seen you can't see other people's own as well.
DeleteYou can hide it but you can't view your contact's last seen,i love it that way. And if I don't have your number as a contact you can't see my profile pic or status.
DeleteYou can remove it yourself by going private ,people only see you when you are online once you are offline nobody knows when you where last seen.
DeleteYou can change your privacy settings so no one would be seeing your last seen and co
DeleteNobody sees my 'last seen' and I can't see people's own either
I swear I hate that 'last seen ' , I deactivated mine since I don't mind not seeing others..... Online- some people have spiritual eye once you're online they must send you a message!!!
DeleteI know right..
DeleteSometimes I want to sneak in and out of Whatsapp without replying some pending chats but I can't do that as everyone would know O was online..
So I just leave messages until I'm ready to reply..
BBM is the best. No one knows anything until you change display picture
U can do that yourself, just go to settings, u can choose not to be seen by anyone. You might even choose that you don't want people to know u've read their messages
DeleteGo to d privacy settings and remove it . . #sipsMoetnChandon#
DeleteI love Mark Z...
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Congrats ooo Mark. Your head is full of wisdom
ReplyDeletekudos to them,their market they move..
ReplyDeleteGood to know
ReplyDeleteAnd wonder boy strikes again! Good one Mark! Great motivation for Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteGood to know
ReplyDeleteThe most important use of whatsapp is the ability to snap and send nude pix to your lover instantly. *winks*
ReplyDeleteHahahahahaha
DeleteWhatsapp is bae!
This guy is just too intelligent,too rich and equally humane...
ReplyDeleteMy next target
ReplyDeleteI love whatsapp esp cos of it's picture quality unlike bbm, I just don't like the fact that anyone can chat u up without a friend request
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