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by robbiemitchell 3677 days ago
I suspect this will be painful to Twilio in a couple years. If you think anything like WeChat and its service ecosystem is coming to the rest of the world, it's going to happen on Facebook (or Telegram), not WhatsApp.
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jedberg 3677 days ago
Facebook owns Whatsapp. Anything that happens on Facebook will be in conjunction with Whatsapp.
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robbiemitchell 3677 days ago
Right, I'm suggesting FB wants people to end up on Messenger.
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cloudjacker 3677 days ago
Messenger = US, WhatsApp = Rest of the world

Viber = when WhatsApp voice is down during the world cup

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robbiemitchell 3677 days ago
Sort of. WeChat in China, LINE in Japan.

And again, if you look at what WeChat has done with embedded services, and believe that will spread, then you wonder whether it will happen on WhatsApp vs. something else. And I don't see Facebook putting the energy into the automation/interaction platform on WhatsApp that it is going to do on Facebook.

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cloudjacker 3677 days ago
I thought about modifying it to include Asian saturation, but I was thinking more so about Facebook services, of which Viber is not one but an underdog
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