# How WhatsApp ate the world

An episode of [Long Reads](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1729547310), 12 Dec 2024, 26 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/f1835800/podcast/play/95728885/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-11-12%2F9475019d-872f-e4ff-bfa1-8c3e056973c6.mp3

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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