WhatsApp has just reached one billion monthly active users

No matter how much you think otherwise, Actualidad iPhone we are not against WhatsApp, simply We prefer Telegram for all the options it offers us unlike the queen messaging platform all over the world. But for tastes, colors, and people are animals of habit and it is difficult for us to change once we have become accustomed to a messaging application.

The messaging application reigns in almost the whole world and integrated within the giant Facebook has just announced that it already has more than one billion monthly users. The visible head of WhatsApp, Jan Koum has just published these figures on his Facebook account, just five months after announcing that they had reached 900 million monthly users. 

In the same message, Koum assures that the service processes more than 42.000 million messages daily1.600 billion photos are shared, there are 250 billion groups created, and 53 million videos are shared daily. Currently the application is available in XNUMX languages, but the intention of the platform is to continue translating it into more languages ​​where it is not yet available today.

Yesterday we informed you of the new functions that the next WhatsApp update will have, but we did not talk about what sooner or later had to happen after WhatsApp was bought by Facebook. In the next update it could also come a new option, quite hidden by the way, that would allow us to share our private data with Facebook, in this way, the social network could guide the advertising that companies contract with them in a much more efficient way. Fortunately this new feature can be disabled.

If this is finally confirmed, the best we can do is do not link both accounts via phone number, a number that the social network has repeatedly requested from us in order to further protect access to our account, but which also helps it to have more information about us and also find out if we are users of the WhatsApp messaging application.