Surprisingly large number of businesses run on whatsapp, as a consultant in Asia it's prob around half the businesses I've worked with prefer it over teams/slack. If Meta had been sensible about API access Telegram wouldn't have even got a foothold.

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tmatsuzaki 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

WhatsApp is actually more popular than Slack, isn’t it? In my country, almost everyone uses Slack, and I’ve hardly ever heard of any companies using WhatsApp, so that was surprising to me.

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yen223 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

WhatsApp is more popular than Slack, Teams and Telegram combined. WhatsApp has something like 2-3 billion users worldwide

WhatsApp vs Slack + Teams is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison though.

	▲	kelvinjps10 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The only thing it's that creating bots for whatsapp it's not as easy as for telegram and it cost money. Actually that is the business plan for whatsapp making money from whatsapp business
	▲	tmatsuzaki 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Living in Japan has made me realize how different cultures can be — even down to the apps and services people use. It honestly surprises me, and now I kind of want to try WhatsApp too.

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ramraj07 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What country is it? Surprised someone on tech even asks this question

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senectus1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

south america and africa are both heavily invested in whatsapp in the business space.