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> triple the user base and it's still a lot

WhatsApp current has 430M monthly active users[0], compared with FaceBook's 1.2B[1] monthly active users. Tripling their userbase would make them the same size FaceBook is itself.

ED: Corrected as child comments pointed out.

[0]: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stori... [1]: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=821954

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To be honest, why not? I can see WhatsApp having more active users than Facebook in the future considering their current growth %.

Seems reasonable since they do well on low tech phones. Facebook is limited by the amount of internet connections and smartphones.

Facebook has 1.23B monthly actives and 750M daily actives. Your WhatsApp link is using MAU as a metric.

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