WhatsApp becomes most popular messaging app with 600 million users

WhatsApp CEO and founder Jan Koum tweeted that the popular messaging app user-base has now been increased to 600 million. Earlier in April, it was announced that WhatsApp had 500 million active users.

Surprisingly, the instant messaging space has been growing by leaps and bounds. It is worth noting that WhatsApp had 200 million users in August 2013. By January 2014, the number surged to 430 million in January 2014. Apart from WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Line, and Hike are other popular messaging apps.

Looking at the increasing user-base of WhatsApps, Facebook has bought the popular messaging app for a whopping $19 billion earlier this year. In order to gain attention of users, another messaging app WeChat has started offering 1GB cloud storage free to help them store documents, pictures, and videos.

This app launched its operations in India in 2012 and it has over 100 million registered accounts internationally. Earlier this month, there were reports that WeChat is inching closer to WhatsApp with 438 million monthly active users.