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Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status Both Reach 300 Million Daily Active Users: During Facebook’s Q3 2017 earnings call, the company announced that both Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status have reached 300 million daily active users, which is up from 250 million for Instagram in June 2017 and for WhatsApp in July 2017. TechCrunch reports that this number represents “nearly” double Snapchat’s reported daily active users and notes that more than half of Instagram’s 500 million daily active users are on Stories.