Facebook's $19 billion obtaining of WhatsApp sounds more intelligent and more intelligent. President Mark Zuckerberg reported on the Q4 2017 income call today that WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion clients and sees 60 billion messages sent for every day. That is contrasted with 1.3 billion month to month clients and 1 billion day by day dynamic clients in July.
The monstrous development settles on Facebook's decision to pay more than $19 billion to gain WhatsApp look perceptive. At the time in 2014, WhatsApp had only 450 million month to month dynamic clients and 315 million every day dynamic clients.
In a slight to Snapchat, Zuckerberg additionally noticed that Instagram and WhatsApp are the No. 1 and No. 2 most well known Story-sharing items, alluding to those applications' clones of Snapchat Stories. Every now every ha 300 million day by day dynamic clients, contrasted with 178 million on Snapchat all in all. He likewise specifies that Facebook's examination recommends that crosswise over applications, add up to web-based social networking presenting on Stories will soon surpass that of nourish posting.
People thought Facebook was crazy to pay such a high price. But messaging is the most critical and time-consuming activity on mobile. And if Facebook didn’t buy WhatsApp, Google probably would have, and messaging would be a two-horse race. Instead, Facebook is massively dominant everywhere but China, between the 1.3 billion-user Messenger and 1.5 billion-user WhatsApp.
Now Facebook is finally getting serious about monetizing WhatsApp with the recent launch of the WhatsApp for Business app. Facebook plans to charge business owners for additional commerce, customer service or broadcasting tools. And with such a massive audience, merchants will be clamoring for them.
Hope steemit will go ahead too.