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WhatsApp Hits 800 Million Users — 1 Billion by Year-End?

Deepa Seetharaman

The Wall Street Journal

Apr 17, 2015 9:12 pm ET

WhatsApp now has 800 million monthly active users, continuing a pace of growth that may put the mobile messaging app on track to hit one billion users later this year.

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