Friday, April 19, 2013

WhatsApp bigger than Twitter, says CEO; denies Google takeover rumours

WhatsApp messaging app now has more users than Twitter, company founder and CEO Jan Koum Mobile conference in New York at AllThingsD Dive said.

Declining to cite specific figures, Koum WhatsApp 8 billion and 12 billion inbound messages and outbound messages per day produced an average of more than 200 million monthly active users, said. Twitter has 200 million monthly active users.

Which is available for iPhone WhatsApp Messenger, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia, users can communicate without having to pay for SMS allows.

After its founding in 2009 to provide a free service, WhatsApp slowly away in the annual fee is 99 cents. WhatsApp on Google is negotiating to sell Koum He denied the rumors.

"Our goal of sustainable, is to build an independent company. We want to build a business," he also ruled out running ads against the policy of WhatsApp abandoned where mobile conference, at the Dive said.

"The only thing we are mobile and messaging," Koum games, advertising and other features include a comprehensive platform that rejected the idea of ​​turning WhatsApp said.

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