Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Also:

- whatsapp doesn't have to allow browsing the entire history of their billions of messages;

- whatsapp doesn't have tags. A message can go not only to 1000000 users, but also to so many apps requesting updates for one tag.

- Twitter allows advanced search, where you can browse, in real time (or down to the entire history), a complex combination of people, tags and free text. With settings such as choosing the lang or the date.

- Whatsapp has a list of messages. But Twitter has a graph : message can be RT again and again, answered to and liked.

- all those features have some impact or the other on the way the tweets are displayed to the user.

- Twitter's API is much more used than Whatsapp's.



WhatsApp also does not need ad related analytics.


That's a big leap. They don't have to actually show ads for that analytics data to be extremely valuable.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: