20 Amazing Facts About WhatsApp You Didn’t Know

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20 Amazing Facts About WhatsApp You Didn’t Know.

20 Amazing Facts About WhatsApp: What comes to your mind when you hear mobile messaging? Yeah, you are right! I mean it has to be WhatsApp. If it isn’t WhatsApp then you must be grandpa or grandpa’s friend who sure has kids who are sharing messages, images, videos, and voice notes on WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is one of the most popular and trending Apps on mobile from all over the world. Although it is very similar to text messaging services, WhatsApp uses the internet to send messages, so the cost of using WhatsApp is significantly less than texting.

And more notable is the fact that WhatsApp is available for all the platforms be it Symbian, Android, iOS or even on windows.

So whether or not you are grandpa I bet you will love this app and you will need to know a few things about one of the world’s most-used apps.

20 Amazing Facts About WhatsApp Web:

  1. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum

  2. Mobile Messaging App co-founder Jan Koum moved to the US from Ukraine at the age of 16. At one time his family survived on food stamps.

  3. This messaging platform has 1.5 billion monthly users.

  4. More than 70% of the monthly users use WhatsApp on a daily basis.

  5. WhatsApp says they are adding 1 million users everyday.

  6. WhatsApp doesn’t sell ads and zero has appeared on the app. As it was built to provide only messaging experience.

  7. WhatsApp supports a total of 60 languages.

  8. Did you know that WhatsApp can also compress images? Yeah, it sends images and videos; it compresses them to save the users both space and data. That means, you can still send pictures without losing quality on WhatsApp.

  9. WhatsApp doesn’t stores users data. Their server only keeps the messages that are undelivered, once the message is sent to a user it is erased from the server.

  10. In 2015, WhatsApp crossed 1 billion downloads for the Android version and at that time they had a team of just 5 members for the same.

  11. WhatsApp currently has 55 employees.

  12. Early WhatsApp Employees currently make $160 Million Each.

  13. In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion. Making it Facebook best purchase ever.

  14. Initially, WhatsApp was free to use just for a year after registration, then it would cost $ 0.99 for unlimited usage. But after Facebook acquired it, it became totally free.

  15. One of the most shocking WhatsApp facts is that the company was worth more than NASA’s entire Annual budget of around 17 billion dollars a few years ago.

  16. Another amazing fact about WhatsApp is that the company spent ZERO cash on marketing, PR and user acquisition.

  17. When Jan Koum was working with WhatsApp he had a note on his desk written by Brian Acton i.e No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks! It helps in focusing on the real motto of WhatsApp.

  18. WhatsApp’s messaging volume is approaching the entire global telecom SMS volume.

  19. Although WhatsApp might seem to be the most amazing thing on the internet, this messaging app is banned in more than 6 countries including China and North Korea.

  20. WhatsApp is valued more than the GDP of countries like Jamaica, Iceland, and North Korea.

CSN Team.

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