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How WhatsApp ate the world

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How WhatsApp ate the world

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WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

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As an American this is very shocking to me
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  On the flip side, I get shocked every time I meet an American tourist and they don’t have WhatsApp
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  Every time I travel, the phone numbers on taxis and restaurants and government signs are all whatsapp numbers. It’s incredibly pervasive.

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