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Learn the greatest unknown facts about whatsapp !
In 2009, WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton, both applied for jobs at Facebook and Twitter and were rejected.
Here is what Brian Acton tweeted about it:
In February 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion, making both of them billionaires. Poetic justice, Eh?
In April 2014, WhatsApp tweeted that it hit a new record for messages. Within 24 hours, people using the app sent 20 billion messages and received 44 billion messages.
That's 64 billion messages! (The reason there are more received than sent is that people send out group messages.)
For some context on how big 64 billion is, consider this:
- Instagram recently announced that its users shared 20 billion photos since it launched back in 2010. That means WhatsApp handled more messages in one day than Instagram users have shared photos over the course of four years.
- That's 2.6 billion messages per hour, or 44.4 million messages per minute, or 740,000 per second.
- Portio Research says 8.6 trillion text messages were sent globally in 2012. That's 23.6 billion per day.
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