LINE corporation, a Japanese-based company has announced that LINE has crossed over 300 million users worldwide, since its launch in June 2011. Back in June Whatsapp announced that they have crossed 250 million active users, LINE just says that they have achieved 300 million registered users. LINE was launched in India in July, and at that time the company claimed that they had 180 million users. LINE India says that they have reached 10 million users in the first 3 months after the launch, and plans to grab 20 million user share by the end of 2013. The company has posted an infographic that shows the growth of the users in numbers.
The Line messenger was released in Japan in June 2011, later it was expanded to range of countries. The company reveals that out of 300 million, over 80% of are non-Japanese users from Taiwan, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Spain. It took 19 months for the company to achieve the first 100 million users, 6 months for the next 100 million, and only four months between 200 million and 300 million users, says the company. LINE messenger is available for range of platforms including, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Nokia Asha feature phones.
The Android and iPhone apps were recently updated with option to make and receive video calls, Albums feature that lets you create and edit photo albums with a friend or in groups and more.