WhatsApp reports more than 250 million monthly active users

WhatsApp reports more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed a rough number of users for its popular smartphone messaging app, according to The Wall Street Journal.
 
The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms and possibly bigger than Twitter, which in December announced it had eclipsed 200 million monthly active users. Microsoft in October said its video-chat service Skype had 280 million monthly active users.

In April, WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum did offer a clue as to the size of the WhatsApp user base, saying on stage at the All Things D Mobile conference that WhatsApp was bigger than Twitter.