Why does everyone use WhatsApp?
Why does everyone use WhatsApp? More than three billion people use WhatsApp every month. Established in 2009, this platform has more users than YouTube and around Facebook . The co-founders of this platform, Jane Koum and Brian Acton , designed it to work as well on Blackberry , Nokia and Windows phones as it does on the iPhone . It soon became a means of communication for people across different devices and countries. In 2014 Koum and Acton sold this app to Meta (Facebook at that time) and WhatsApp continues to grow. The New Yorker magazine spoke with Knight about why the app has overtaken other messaging and social media platforms, and where it's headed next. Here we have presented the edited and translated part of the same conversation. Why write about WhatsApp now? About the middle of last year I thought, "I'm communicating so much from this one place on my phone." This is how I talk to my mother. I do everything related to my children's school through...