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How WhatsApp ate the world

· 26 min · Episode 15

Episode 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 the world’s most widely used messaging app, with 2 billion daily users, who send 100 billion messages every day in 60 languages across 180 countries. This feature takes an in-depth look at how it grew so big and Meta's plan for what comes next.

Written by Issie Lapowsky. Narrated by Jane Seidel.

Original story: https://restofworld.org/2024/how-whatsapp-for-business-changed-the-world/

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