WhatsApp is proud to announce that it now has more than 2 billion users worldwide. It's a lot. It is as if all of the Chinese, Japanese and Europeans, from the youngest to the oldest, use messaging.
WhatsApp, launched in 2009 by two Yahoo alumni and acquired in 2014 by Facebook for $ 19 billion, dominates the world of messaging. Messenger for its part has 1.3 billion users (but this is a figure going back to 2018, it must be significantly higher today).
Facebook said last month that 2.26 billion people open Facebook, Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp every day. If we take into account the monthly users, the figure rises 2.89 billion. The parent company seeks to make its messaging systems compatible with each other, as well as to encrypt all of the messages altogether, a very complex project that could take years.
When its application is used by 2 billion people, the temptation is great to slip a little advertising to make money, even if the two founders have always firmly opposed that founders who have also left Facebook because of this disagree. According to Wall street journal, the ad project is frozen at the moment, but it should resume sooner or later.