WhatsApp claims to have more than 40M active users in India

Messaging client WhatsApp that was recently bought by Facebook for $19 billion has more than 40 million active users in India, the company’s Vice-President, Business Development Neeraj Arora told Times of India in an interview.


The company had announced in December that it has 36 million active users in India and close to a million users are installing the app every day. So it is interesting to note that the number of active users shot up by 10 million in two months. The service had 25 million active users here in November and 20 million in August. It has 450 million users at the time of acquisition, out of which 320 million used the messaging service on a daily basis.