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by IshKebab 868 days ago
Instagram maybe, but do WhatsApp and Quest actually make money? WhatsApp is free and has no advertising (so far). Quest is very niche.

Yeah I looked it up. Quest costs Meta $5.7bn for $1bn in revenue.
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kleinsch 868 days ago
Click-to-message is $10B/year, click-to-message in WhatsApp alone was $1.5B 1.5 years ago. They make buckets of money from business services on WhatsApp.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/15/metas-next-profit-...

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solardev 868 days ago
What are those? (In the US, only used WhatsApp for DMing Europeans).
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IshKebab 867 days ago
Yeah I don't know either. WhatsApp is universal in the UK but businesses still use SMS or email.
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kredd 868 days ago
I guess, WhatsApp business just never caught up on our side of the world, but every time I’m outside of US/Canada, there will be some sort of business (like a restaurant) that will contact me through it. Assuming they’re making some pennies from WhatsApp Business.
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