“WhatsApp has just 50 employees, and most of us are engineers.
We've arrived at this point without spending a dollar on targeted ads or big
marketing campaigns”
CEO Jan Koum in a Blog post with
regards to the 400 million member Milestone
Looks like my blog article on WhatsApp being Top Dog in the US of A was
spot on as surmised in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
is Trailing Behind WhatsApp in Social Messaging - Teenagers and Millennials
wooed by Mobile Social Networks on smartphones and Tablets that have
Snapchat-esque Privacy Controls”.
They are now 400 million members strong, basically one third of the size
of Facebook and adding members at a rate of roughly 100 million per months on
as stated in the article “WhatsApp
now chats up 400M people each month”, published December 19, 2013 10:41 AM
PST by Jennifer Van Grove, CNET News.
The official blog post can be read on WhatsApp’s Blog in their most recent
post “400
Million Stories”, published December 19, 2013 by Jan Koum, WhatsApp Blog! Most impressive as Facebook
now at some 1.2 billion Actives users as chronicled in my Geezam blog article entitled “Facebook
is Growing Strong with 1.15 Billion Active users in the Second Quarter of 2013”.
Engineering at its best –
Word-of-mouth Viral Marketing Advertising Dollars can’t buy
Most impressive is that they did this over a period of 2 years with only
50 engineers; no marketing staff and a no real Marketing save for word of
mouth. They’d previously beaten Twitter 200 million active users back in April
2013 as Americans fall in love with Smartphone and messaging and eschew Instant
Messaging as stated in my blog article
entitled “CTIA
reports a 5% decline in US Texting as Instant Messaging ramps up - WhatsApp's
now Top Gun as The Dead Zone leads Star Trek Into the Darkness”.
More proof that not only is Facebook slowly being killed off by Mobile
Social Messaging companies but the spread of smartphones is also the fuel for
these upstarts such as the recently released BBM (Blackberry Messenger) as
stated in my blog
article entitled “Blackberry
Messenger is Most Downloaded in November 2013 and is poised to beat WhatsApp -
BBM is now on the Rising Tide of the Mobile Social Messaging Network Summer of
Love”.
Death of Facebook at the hands
of the Rising Tide of Mobile Social Media on smartphones
Throw in their eventual coming demise in 2016 at the hands of Google+ as
stated in my blog
article entitled “Google+
is expanding rapidly and is set to beat Facebook by 2016 - Batman the Dark
Knight Rises as the new Social Network King”.
Their recent attempts to appease Teenagers (ages 13 to 17) and
Millennials (ages 18 to 28) as concluded in my blog
article entitled “Winter
is Coming as Google+ is on a collision course to beat Facebook by 2016” is
an indication of how bad it has gotten as their attempts to clone Snapchat have
failed.
Now they’re losing all of their sharp carnassials teeth like an old Wolf
in the Appalachian Rockies! Eventually, a younger pack of wolves will finish
them off and WhatsApp is the alpha male that’s leading the pack. Facebook’s
days are numbered, just like Blackberry as surmised in my blog article entitled “Blackberry
being rescued by former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis - Fairfax Financial Holdings
Limited is Fire and Blood as BBM goes free”.
Folks, bear witness to the Death of Facebook at the hands of the Rising
Tide of Mobile Social Media on smartphones, be they Apple iPhones or Google’s
Android army!
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