THE world's most popular messaging service breaks a new record.
It's official.
WhatsApp has just confimed that it now has one billion active users making it the world's most popular messaging app.
With that many users, WhatsApp now has to cope with 42 billion messages and 250 million videos being sent every day of the week.
When it was taken over by Facebook in 2014 it had just 450 million.
Facebook paid a whoppping $19billlion (£11.5 million) for WhatsApp and promised to make it the world's biggest messaging platform – something they now appear to have achieved.
Announcing the news on his Facebook page Mark Zuckerberg said: "One billion people now use WhatsApp. Congrats to Jan, Brian and everyone who helped reach this milestone!"
One billion people now use WhatsApp. Congrats to Jan, Brian and everyone who helped reach this milestone! WhatsApp's...Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, February 1, 2016
WhatsApp recently announced that it was scrapping its yearly fee for all users.
Co-founder Jan Koum revealed the business model “really doesn’t work for some people.”
And a post on the official WhatsApp confrimed the news stating: "We're happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees.
"As we've grown, we've found that this approach hasn't worked well."
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