Whatsapp reaches 500 million active users, THANKS TO INDIA!

Mark Zuckerberg will be happy man today. Since the acquisition of the messaging app company Whasapp, the app today claims touching 500 million mark. Mark made the acquisition of Whatsapp in order to “make the world more open and connected.” He said “we do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want”. In August he shared his concern. “We now connect more than 1 billion people, but to connect the next 5 billion we must solve a much bigger problem: the vast majority of people don't have access to the internet.” The problem now seemed to solved partly by Whatsapp. The messaging app has now touched 500,000,000 (that is 500 million) users with people sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day. In a short blog post the company thanks its users for using the app. “Thanks to all of you, half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users. In the last few months, we’ve grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia.” In an interview to Time, Jan Koum, CEO and cofounder of Whatsapp said “the four big countries are Brazil, Mexico, India and Russia,” are adding to the growth of this platform. “People who never used computers, never used laptops, never used the Internet are signing up” he says. The company is ready to help Facebook reach its mark to connect the world. In the above mentioned interview Koum mentioned “continuing to get to a billion users, and then two billion users. I think Facebook understands that, and Mark [Zuckerberg] understands that quite well.”