HyperLoop555

#WhatsApp #iMessage #GoogleChat #FacebookMessenger It had an estimated 1.5 billion monthly users worldwide as of 2017. It’s been banned in China, where the government issued a copycat app, WeChat. When authoritarian regimes crack down on popular protests, it is often one of the first social media apps to go dark. It has  400 million monthly users in India alone , where users say it is simply the way people communicate. It’s hugely popular in Europe and the Middle East as well. And yet a question remains: Why is  WhatsApp  practically unknown in the U.S., the world’s largest economy? Why is WhatsApp not also “the default” for messaging, as it is elsewhere in the world? The answer, it seems, is a complicated cocktail of worldwide telecommunication development mixed with American travel habits. Or rather, the lack thereof. WhatsApp launched in 2009 in California, built by software engineers Brian Acton and Jan Koum. It grew in popularity so swiftly that  Fa...