WhatsApp, the most popular application in exchange for messages, which has won several consumers, including my mother, led the agency Iinterativa to create a list of things that most of us did not know.
I do not consider myself addicted, I just take care of, round and round, open WhatsApp to know if the safety of the world is safeguarded.
Well, let's go to 5 trivia about WhatsApp that you did not know (or not…):
WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook on 2014, but after that much water rolled. Calling feature, increased security for sending messages, possibility to change the status of a conversation: many services have been added since then. THE Interactive Infobase brought together some curiosities about the company of Jan Koum (co-founder of Whatsapp).
- Proposal declined by GOOGLE
Before being purchased by the Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp received several proposals - among them one from Google. The value offered by Sergey Brin and Larry Page was 10 billions of dollars, but the founders of WhatsApp refused. Google did not deny or confirm the story.
- Number of employees impresses!
WhatsApp has, at present, 55 employees. That's it! Of this total, 32 are engineers. As the application has an average of 800 million users, this means that an engineer is responsible for 25 millions of users. - Never wasted a penny with marketing
The founders of WhatsApp never made a marketing campaign to the application. Koum has a note on his desk, written by Brianwchich, which says “No ads! No games! No tricks! ” That's the philosophy of the company. - WhatsApp worth more than NASA's 2015 budget
O Facebook bought the WhatsApp by 22 billions of dollars. This means that the application is worth more than 2015's NASA budget, which is of 17 billions of dollars. - We spent 195 minutes in app per week
A study done in 2014 shows that users spend about 3h15 per week in WhatsApp, and more than 30 billion messages are sent and received, every day, by its users.
Other curiosities:
It is the most used app in the world.
Different languages are available in 32.
72% of your users open the app daily.
Average daily scan per user: 23 times.
So, were you aware of these data?
