The data displays a timeline with the amount of monthly active LINE users worldwide as of the fourth quarter of 2016. As of that period, the mobile messaging app announced more than 217 million monthly active users. In October 2014, LINE had also reported 560 million registered users worldwide.
The Japanese messenger app LINE was developed by engineers at NHN Japan, an arm of the South Korean Naver Corporation, in response to damaged telecommunications infrastructure nationwide in the aftermath of the devastating TÅhoku earthquake in March 2011.
