<b>Messaging is a threat to Google and Facebook. The desktop is dead. The web...

Terrence Miao - 2014-03-02 12:36:07+1100 - Updated: 2014-03-02 12:36:07+1100

Messaging is a threat to Google and Facebook. The desktop is dead. The web is dying. Messaging + mobile is an entire ecosystem that sidesteps their channel

• 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history.
• 32 developers; one developer supports 14 million active users
• 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms (inbound + outbound)
• 1+ million people sign up every day
• > 8000 cores
• Hundreds of terabytes of RAM
• > 70M Erlang messages per second
• In 2011 WhatsApp achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine with memory and cpu to spare. In 2012 that was pushed to over 2 million tcp connections. In 2013 WhatsApp tweeted out: On Dec 31st we had a new record day: 7B msgs inbound, 11B msgs outbound = 18 billion total messages processed in one day!

High Scalability - High Scalability - The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion

Terrence Miao - 2014-03-02 12:39:08+1100 - Updated: 2014-03-02 12:49:07+1100

• Limits in the cause of simplicity are OK. Your identity is tied to the phone number, so if you change your phone number your identity is gone. This is very un-computer like. But it does make the entire system much simpler in design.

• Age ain’t nothing. If it was age discrimination that prevented WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton from getting a job at both Twitter and Facebook in 2009, then shame, shame, shame ...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/whatsapp-founder-brian-acton-turned-3166541

Michael Poloni - 2014-03-02 14:59:39+1100

Messaging is a threat? Messaging, at least the traditional text-based IM, is for me the most regularly used of Google's services.

Terrence Miao - 2014-03-02 15:11:13+1100

+Michael Poloni Mate, you need to stat using WhatApp or WeChat and see how popular they are. They are NOT traditional 140 characters SMS or modern Google Talk messaging anymore. Especially WeChat, it tries to integrate everything in it, including online payment system, and taxi booking app ...

Michael Poloni - 2014-03-02 15:19:59+1100 - Updated: 2014-03-02 15:20:51+1100

+Terrence Miao why use something I don't need?

But yes, I'm not the traditional consumer. I tend to "consume" very little.

With regards to WhatsApp, there isn't any driver or motivation for me to try it out. At least not at the moment.