One of the (many) intriguing parts of the WhatsApp story is that it has achieved such enormous scale with such a tiny team.
Inside 'Lula's Army': How 10m WhatsApp users fuelled Brazil's
Analysts, however, say the full picture is more complicated.
Building Private Processing for AI tools on WhatsApp
We are inspired by the possibilities of AI to help people be more creative, productive, and stay closely connected on WhatsApp, so we set out to build a new technology that allows our users around …
Folks, urgent: why Lula's 10-million-strong WhatsApp army can't be copied
"Pessoal, urgente." (Folks, urgent.)
WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge
It is stunning to watch a single judge instantly shut down a key means of online communication. But similar battles are inevitable.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Chat
‘Betrayal of trust'? WhatsApp to start sharing user data with Facebook, corporations — RT World News
The world’s most popular messenger, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp, will give its users’ personal information to its parent company and plans to make it easier for businesses to contact subscribers. WhatsApp claims the changes won’t endanger privacy.
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If you have WhatsApp, Signal, if you've ever opened a PDF on your device, if you run iOS, Android, and even an OS like Graphene, your chances of having this software on your phone is more than zero.Even Graphene pretends to be uncrackable, but clever marketing is used to cover… https://t.co/gaVzq4tAZm— 7SEES (@7SEES_) February 11, 2026
The WhatsApp ‘general’ behind Lula’s election comeback in Brazil
Andre Janones built a WhatsApp army of nearly 11 million subscribers. Did it help Lula win?
Inside The Testosterone-Soaked Culture Of India’s Guys-Only WhatsApp Groups
In a time when it’s decreasingly cool to be sexist, some men are retreating to the privacy of all-male WhatsApp groups to validate their misogyny.
Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix
After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.
Full Whatsapp Chat Export? (>40,000 messages)
56 votes, 63 comments. Hey guys, Short question - how can I get an export, to .txt or a zip of .txt, of a 130,000 message chat history? So I know…
Max Cometh: What The Blocking Of WhatsApp, Telegram Means For Millions Of Russians
WhatsApp has long been the most popular messaging app for Russians, followed closely by Telegram. This week, officials took major steps to cut them off and make them unusable—part of a long-running, two-pronged effort to control the information Russians access online.
Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 3: The Even Wilder World of WhatsApp
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroWhatsApp is another application that supports video co...
WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more | TechCrunch
WhatsApp’s two-step verification previously relied on a six-digit PIN, but now users can choose a longer, alphanumeric password with special characters.
