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The worlds most popular messaging app, WhatsApp revealed how massive it has become since starting 11 years ago. The Facebook owned app hit 2 billion users, up from 1.5 billion 2 years ago. The mother company Facebook, which recently hit 2.5 billion users, is the only other platform with over 2 billion users.
Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a sweet sum of $19 billion in the year 2014 to add it to its portfolio which included Instagram. WhatsApp had 465 million monthly active users at the time.
In its latest earnings report, Facebook said that 2.26 billion people open at least one of their apps - Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or Messenger - each day, up 9% year-on-year. This doesn't help Facebook much as the company has faced a lot of regulatory scrutiny and some people truly believing that the company should be broken up to loosen the power that Facebook has.
The graph below shows how WhatsApp has grown over the years.
You will find more infographics at Statista