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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by nwh on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:30PM (#7266874)
> triple the user base and it's still a lot

WhatsApp current has 430M monthly active users[0], compared with FaceBook's 1.2B[1] monthly active users. Tripling their userbase would make them the same size FaceBook is itself.

ED: Corrected as child comments pointed out.

[0]: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stori... [1]: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=821954

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by ggreenbe on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:33PM (#7266908)
To be honest, why not? I can see WhatsApp having more active users than Facebook in the future considering their current growth %.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by mathattack on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:31PM (#7272640)
Seems reasonable since they do well on low tech phones. Facebook is limited by the amount of internet connections and smartphones.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by underwater on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:53PM (#7267569)
Facebook has 1.23B monthly actives and 750M daily actives. Your WhatsApp link is using MAU as a metric.
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