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WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an internationally available American freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

Screenshots of WhatsApp showing groups of people organized around topics like schools and activities. Your apartment building's Slack group is getting some competition. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark ...

Full timeline. Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in USA. WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos. WhatsApp support for Android OS is added.

WhatsApp employs around 1000 contractors in their 20s and 30s, via Accenture, at offices in Austin, Texas, Dublin and Singapore. Their job is to review content reported by WhatsApp users, and pay starts at $16.50/hour. When a user flags a message they've received, it and the previous four messages are decrypted and sent to this content review team.