In October 2011, WhatsApp announced a record number of messages sent users reaching 1 billion messages per day. "There are 41,666,667 messages sent per hour, 694,444 messages sent per minute, and 11,574 messages sent per second", wrote WhatsApp via blog posts.
Social networking site Facebook is reportedly serious talks with manufacturers WhatsApp application. One source close to the company told Techcrunch says that Facebook is interested in buying WhatsApp.
Facebook seems to want to expand its customers in the mobile realm. One way might be to acquire WhastApp. However, no detailed information about the acquisition and the form of agreement between Facebook and WhasApp. Both of them did not want to speak about this rumor.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg certainly some time ago once said that Facebook wanted to reach 2 billion consumers. The trick with the serious work on the mobile market.
"There are 5 billion people in the world who have mobile phones, and 1 billion people use Facebook. Actually, there are 600 million people who use Facebook on mobile, growing very fast. Along many smartphone users, this is a great opportunity," said Zuckerberg in a interview with BusinessWeek last October.
WhatsApp itself is a multi-platform chat applications are on the rise. This application is very popular because it can be used in a variety of mobile devices including Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone.
In addition to messaging, WhatsApp can send audio and video. One thing more preferably from WhatsApp is free advertising. WhatsApp reportedly already has about 100 million active users each day texting. These applications in 250 countries with a variety of platforms.
