1. What does WhatsApp do : WhatsApp is a free messenger app for smartphones. WhatsApp uses the internet to send messages, images, audio, or video. The service is very similar to text messaging services, however, because WhatsApp uses the internet to send messages, the cost of using WhatsApp is significantly less than texting.
3. WhatsApp Launch year : 24 February 2009
4. Company Name : WhatsApp Inc
5. WhatsApp Headquarters : Menlo Park, California, United States
6. WhatsApp Founder(s) : Jan Koum, Brian Acton
7. Parent organization : Meta
8. Number of WhatsApp employees : 1,000 (Appox)
9. Number of WhatsApp messages sent each day : More than 100 billion
10. Number of WhatsApp monthly active users : 2 billion (2020)
11. Number of WhatsApp Business users : 50 billion
12. Number of WhatsApp voice calls made : Over 100 million
13. WhatsApp revenue : $5.5 billion (2020)
14. Number of available languages : 60
15. Number of countries that WhatsApp has users in : 180 countries
16. Top 3 countries for WhatsApp usage : India (390 million users), Brazil (108 million users), USA (75.1 million users)
17. Average time people spend on WhatsApp : 19 hours per month as of 2022
18. Number of WhatsApp downloads : 96 million (2022)
19. Top 3 Competitors or similar products : Signal, Telegram, iMessage
20. Criticism :
In January 2021, WhatsApp announced an update to its Privacy Policy which states that WhatsApp would collect the metadata of users and share it with Facebook and its “family of companies” starting in February 2021. This move has drawn intense criticism for WhatsApp, with critics claiming that it erodes the users’ privacy.
Other interesting news :
- Now use WhatsApp on five devices simultaneously with multi-Device support
- WhatsApp is the third most popular social network worldwide
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