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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by the_other on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:24AM (#28985602)
Facebook now have to maintain Messenger AND WhatsApp. And Insta also has chat. So I disagree that FB could have killed WA.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by the_other on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:00AM (#28986820)
I’m tempted to go further. FB bought WA because it would have killed their ad business.
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