A few short years ago, my friend Brian
and I set out to build a messaging
service with a single focus: best
possible user experience. We bet that if
our team of engineers could make
messaging fast, simple, and personal,
we could charge people directly for the
service without having to rely on
annoying banner ads, game promotions,
or all those other distracting “features”
that come with many messaging apps.
Today, we’re proud to announce that
because of you, WhatsApp has reached
a milestone that no other mobile
messaging service has achieved: 400
million monthly active users, with 100
million active users added in the last
four months alone. This isn’t a count of
people who just registered for
WhatsApp – it’s the number of people
who are actively using the service every
single month.
When we say that you made this
possible, we mean it. WhatsApp has
just 50 employees, and most of us are
engineers. We’ve arrived at this point
without spending a dollar on targeted
ads or big marketing campaigns. We’re
here because of all the people who
share their WhatsApp stories with co-
workers, friends, and loved ones –
stories we love to hear.
There was the woman from New
Zealand who moved to South Africa to
complete her PhD. The week before she
left to go back home, she met the man
of her dreams. Despite living thousands
of miles apart, she told us that
WhatsApp has allowed them to feel
closer than ever.
We also heard from a British woman
who runs a charity in Uganda. She told
us that her team on the ground uses
WhatsApp to send daily reports, photos,
and videos of the children they’re
helping, which she shares to build
support for her organization all over the
world.
Doctors in India are using WhatsApp to
instantly send electrocardiogram
pictures of patients who’ve suffered
heart attacks, saving valuable time and
potentially lives. In the mountains of
Madrid , rescuers used WhatsApp to
locate and save lost hikers. And today,
as I follow the unfolding political crisis
in Ukraine, the place where I was born
and lived until the age of sixteen, I can’t
help but hope that the next great
WhatsApp story will be about people
using the service to speak their mind
and stand up for their basic rights.
Our goal in creating WhatsApp was to
empower people through technology
and communication, no matter who they
are, or where they live. We wanted to
improve people’s lives in some small
way. So thank you for making that
possible. Thank you for sharing your
stories, and please, keep them coming
– we can’t wait to hear what you’ll use
WhatsApp for next.
http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stories/

Whatsapp is very fast kena.... the platform is making plenty sense and with Just 50 engineers.. more grease to Ur elbows

bbm nko?

wat abt bbm?

2Go 150million#nigerians

not my biz.

And still counting...