Interesting Facts about WhatsApp!!

  We live in an era where SMS and MMS are considered to be extinct. People send gigabytes of data through their mobile device for business and personal needs. Messengers service such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter has storm the industry with new and great features. Today, in this article we are going to focus on WhatsApp, a start-up way back in 2009 founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in California.

    

      After leaving Yahoo in 2007, Jan Koum and Brian Acton applied to Facebook. Guess what? They failed. They couldn’t land the job. They also had an idea to work for twitter, eventually that too didn’t happen. So, like the rest of millennials, they also aspired to become billionaires by reciting the magical word “STARTUP”. They wanted to start their own messaging app and immediately came up with the name WhatsApp as it sounded like ‘WHATS UP’. On Feb 4,2009 WhatsApp was officially incorporated in California. A guy named Igor Solomennikov from Russia was hired to develop WhatsApp for IOS. The app was officially launched on apple store in November 2009 and well as goes by the saying” rest is history”.

• CEO and Co-founder, Jan Koum announced that, as of April 2016 WhatsApp has more than 1 Billion active users.
• Everyday WhatsApp moves more than 50billion messages throughout the globe.
• Google wanted to buy WhatsApp for $10 billion but the deal went south. Finally, Facebook spent $19 billion (that is more than the annual budget of NASA for the year 2014) to buy WhatsApp on Valentine’s day of 2014.
• The most interesting thing about the app is, it has spent zero dollars for Marketing. As everyone knows the app is completely ad free and generates revenue only by subscription fees.

1. An average user of WhatsApp spends around 200 minutes weekly.
2. An average user checks WhatsApp 23 times daily.
3. Telecom industry will face $386 billion loss between 2012-18 because of the OTT apps like WhatsApp.
4. The new voice sharing feature in WhatsApp is great. More than 200 million voice notes get shared daily.
5. More than 1 million users get registered in WhatsApp daily.
6. 72%(i.e. 700 million) of users check their WhatsApp daily.
7. In entertainment section, more than 100 million photos and videos are shared daily.
8. India has the largest user base for WhatsApp and it accounts to 10% of the total users.