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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by jn4 on Monday February 02, 2015 @12:20AM (#8982834)
WhatsApp is of comparable scale and is doing this with 100x less servers.

As per [1], in March 2014 they were handling 20B messages/day (with 600M pics, 100M videos) with just about 550 servers.

My guess would be that, every day more photos are shared on WhatsApp than on FB.

Major difference: At present, WhatsApp does not "keep" your messages or sell "you" to advertisers.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...

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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by harel on Monday February 02, 2015 @09:39AM (#8984304)
Its not comparable scale. WhatsApp are shifting messages from point A to point B and that's it. Even 100x less servers is still a LOT of servers just or that. They don't store data, just traffic it from one user to another.
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