WhatsApp user base crosses 70 million in India

Mobile messenger service Whatsapp’s user base in India has grown to 70 million dynamic users, which is over a 10th of its worldwide users, its business head Neeraj Arora said on Sunday.

“We have 70 million dynamic users here who utilize the application in any event once a month,” Arora, a VP with Whatsapp, said at the fifth yearly INK Conference in Mumbai.

He said the aggregate user base for the organization, which was purchased by Facebook in a blockbuster US $19-billion arrangement not long ago, is 600 million.

With over a 10th of the users from the nation, India is one of the greatest markets for Whatsapp, he said, including joining billions of individuals in businesses like India and Brazil is the point of the organization.

Arora, a former student of IIT-Delhi and ISB Hyderabad, said Whatsapp will keep on holding a different personality much after the takeover by Facebook and won’t get combined with the person to person communication monster.

He said Whatsapp, which has just 80 representatives, will profit through learnings from the long range informal communication monster.

Arora, who first became aware of Whatsapp as a business improvement official for the Internet look goliath Google and later joined as its business head, said it took two years to line the US $19 billion arrangement proclaimed this April. Interestingly, Arora said he would have paid a small amount of the total to purchase Whatsapp three years back.

It would have been in “low many million” dollars, he said focusing on that the organization has developed a great deal from that point forward.

Arora said the user base has multiplied to 600 million from the 30 million when he joined three years prior. The organization has thrived as a result of its concentrate on the item, instead of the business side of things, he said.

“The originators needed to create a cool item which will be utilized by millions and did not have business things like valuations,” he said, focusing on that this keeps on being a proverb of the organization.