This now fulfills a promise that Mark Zuckerberg made to Facebook shareholders at the deal’s outset. WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $22 billion in October 2014, has also recently announced on its blog that it also surpassed the one billion user mark. Facebook itself has the largest audience out of all of these apps, with 1.59 billion monthly active users.
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Google also has the app that reached one billion users the quickest: Android did it in only 5.8 years.įacebook also has three apps that can make the billion user claim.
The last of these to reach the one billion mark was Gmail, as per Alphabet’s announcement earlier this month during an earnings call. So far, the only companies in possession of apps or programs with more than one billion active users are Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.Īmazingly, Google alone has seven of them: Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android, Chrome, and Play. However, none of these are able to yet have the global market penetration to reach the coveted billion mark. Meanwhile, names such as Reddit, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram all boast hundreds of millions of users. That’s why the app “only” has 650 million active users right now. WeChat, which is the most popular mobile messaging app in China, couldn’t reach one billion active users even if it was used by every single person with a smartphone in China. It turns out that it’s quite a challenge.Īpple, the largest company by market capitalization, doesn’t have a single product with that kind of penetration. With approximately 3.3 billion people now using the internet, how hard can it possibly be to reach one billion of them each month?
The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The March to a Billion Users How long did it take for each app to hit the 1B mark?