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Instagram and Whatsapp? Even Quest as a platform has tens of millions. All of these are still up and to the right in terms of user numbers and revenue

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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.

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.

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-...

What are those? (In the US, only used WhatsApp for DMing Europeans).

Yeah I don't know either. WhatsApp is universal in the UK but businesses still use SMS or email.

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