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Correct me if I am wrong, but while the talent acquisition makes sense because the execution from the Beluga team has been brilliant, but why the technology? I mean are not they using Twilio's API for the most part of the service?

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Zuck has stated several times that Facebook only acquires for talent. So if you love your product, don't sell it to Facebook :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2277570

I suspect the author of this post may be a little better informed about Facebook's intentions than most other HN posters.

Finiteloop = Bret Taylor, CTO of Facebook

hence a little better informed about Facebook's intentions :)

I was clarifying since you didn't say so explicitly. Best to be clear.

Where have you been for the last 98 days? Or has there been no Facebook articles on HN since ;)

Beluga doesn't use SMS for the transport layer they use TCP. Groupflier (me) and Groupme use SMS and Twilio. Congrat's to the Beluga team!

GroupMe 2.0 (released today) uses either SMS or Push/TCP in the iPhone and Android apps.

Yes I saw that announcement. Our iPhone app also uses TCP, the goal is to to switch SMS traffic to TCP traffic over time.

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