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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by MomoXenosaga on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:31PM (#28990634)
Post acquisition WhatsApp had to start making money.

For all the doom and gloom Facebook is still too scared of putting ads in there.

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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by Scoundreller on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:20PM (#28991942)
Not letting a Facebook competitor get ahold of it has value in itself.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by laurent92 on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:27PM (#28991350)
At least they can use it to harvest people’s networks and interests. Even more efficiently than Facebook itself.
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