WhatsApp is now bigger than Twitter
There have been tons of mobile instant messaging services over the years, but few have had the kind impact WhatsApp's managed to gain since it was founded in 2009.
In fact, the service may now have more users than Twitter.
At least, that's according to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum who was speaking at AllThingsD's Dive Into Media conference. While he wouldn't be drawn into exact user numbers, he did say that it was north of the 200-million mark.
He did however note that the service was seeing 8-billion inbound messages and 12-million outbound messages per day, adding that the fact it has fewer than 50 engineers means that it has the highest ratio of active users per long-term employee today of any active tech company.
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