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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted" data-source="post: 25089638" data-attributes="member: 559066"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/VnkyOZP.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Here's what you need to know...<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />WhatsApp was created in 2009 by computer programmers Brian Acton and Jan Koum – former employees of Yahoo<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />It’s one of the most popular messaging services in the world<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />Koum came up with the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up”<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />After a number of tweaks the app was released with a messaging component in June 2009, with 250,000 active users<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />It was originally free but switched to a paid service to avoid growing too fast. Then in 2016, it became free again for all users<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />Facebook bought WhatsApp Inc in February 2014 for $19.3billion (£14.64bn)<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />The app is particularly popular because all messages are encrypted during transit, shutting out snoopers<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🔴" title="Red circle    :red_circle:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f534.png" data-shortname=":red_circle:" />As of January 2018, WhatsApp has over 1.5billion users globally</blockquote>

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