Mark Zuckerberg fulfills the promise he made when purchasing WhatsApp. “The application will exceed one billion users,” said the owner of Facebook. After two years, the prophecy was fulfilled. On Monday, February 1, WhatsApp broke the new record of 1 billion active users every month. Impressive numbers that confirm WhatsApp’s leadership in the world of instant messaging applications.

The news comes a few days after the official declaration that WhatsApp has become free for everyone and forever. The annual fee will no longer be paid. A much discussed choice but which, in all likelihood, gave that sprint to users to download the application and thus contribute to the achievement of the incredible record of 1 billion users.

“Today a billion people are using WhatsApp. There are very few services connecting more than a billion people, ” Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his official Facebook page.

The Facebook owner had bought WhatsApp in 2014 for a figure that is around 20 billion dollars. At that time, there were 450 million users. In two years they have more than doubled.

The creator of WhatsApp Jan Koum , who writes on facebook: “A billion users. I couldn’t be more proud of our small team that has done so much in just seven years. ”

Only seven years of life for WhatsApp, which actually seems to have always existed. The application is part of the daily life of – now it can be said – more than a billion people around the world.

WhatsApp has 1 billion users, and more …

The record numbers do not end there.

Koum himself posted an image that shows all the “strength” of this application. 42 billion messages per day; 1.6 billion photos sent per day; 1 billion groups; 53 languages ​​supported; 250 million videos shared every day and (only) 57 engineers working to make sure everything works in the best possible way.

And now?

WhatsApp’s ambitions don’t seem to stop. As he states on the official blog , “To date, one billion people use WhatsApp. It means that nearly one in seven people on Earth use WhatsApp every month to keep in touch with loved ones, friends and family. […] We are thrilled to have come this far. But now let’s get back to work – because we have to add another 6 billion people to WhatsApp, and we have a long way to go. “

The next goal, therefore, is to reach the remaining 6 billion people who inhabit the planet earth but who still do not use WhatsApp today. Impossible goal? Not for WhatsApp. The question is: when will it succeed?