For that sort of money, you’d want to be guaranteed a happy ending.
The Internet was abuzz last night with the news that social media giant Facebook had purchased mobile messaging WhatsApp in a package worth approximately $19 billion overall, a fairly spicy meatball and big bucks even as far as the mega-wealthy Mark Zuckerburg is concerned.
In their haste to get the news out to the wider world, the BBC News Twitter account mistakenly included a typo when tweeting the news to their millions and millions of followers and while it was completely innocent and everyone makes mistakes now and again, this particular typo perhaps left their followers with the impression that Facebook were buying something a lot different than a very popular mobile messaging service.
Those folks at WhatsApp must deliver a hell of a massage if Mark Zuckerburg considered $16 billion an ‘incredibly valuable’ price to pay, but BBC soon picked up on the error of their ways and issued a corrective tweet a few minutes later, but not before screen grabs of the original tweet spread like wildfire around Twitter and a whole lot of fun was had at their expense.
We’re not sure what the WhatsApp people would have made of such a description of their services, but rumour had it they were a little busy last night to take any notice…
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