If we use Twitter to announce that people should #deletefacebook, what social network do we use in the event that it becomes necessary to #deletetwitter?
WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
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#12If we use Twitter to announce that people should #deletefacebook, what social network do we use in the event that it becomes necessary to #deletetwitter?
you ssh into your own trusted openbsd system, run bitchx and connect to efnet, just like the good lord intended back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
i am only partially sarcastic here.
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#13technically he did start a Facebook competitor (loosely speaking), he just happened to have been bought by them!
And then he quit his company to work on another competitor! He gave 40 million dollars to and works on Signal, the app that WhatsApp is basically a skin of anyway.
50 million, i believe.
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#14Smart tactic since Facebook is on fire and Whatsapp is directly pulled into discussions concerning privacy and whatnot.
Curious if he can dish out some facts to backup that tweet or it's just a "convenient" time to shed some light over your new product which is basically another..Whatsapp
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#15Don’t let billionaires tell you what to do.
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#16Jan Koum Is entertaining. He was a frequent flyer and wanted to build an app that could tell people what time zone the person they are talking to was in, that they were on a flight, etc
He posted on flyertalk about it and got a "meh, you have to install something? Why bother?" response
5 years later, as a frequent flyer he was into collecting miles and using them on tickets, and he had managed to get business class flights to mobile world congress in Barcelona, but while the deal was going through to sell whatsapp to Facebook there were a couple of delays. Nothing major.
He thought to himself "these are non changeable tickets, they'd better get a move on", then reflected how absurd a position he was in.
1: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...
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#17I would be very curious to learn what sort of non-disparagement clauses existed in the Whatsapp/Facebook purchase contract. And how exactly they were worded.
I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
> If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
Is this just inside knowledge, or has it been published anywhere yet?
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#18I would be very curious to learn what sort of non-disparagement clauses existed in the Whatsapp/Facebook purchase contract. And how exactly they were worded.
I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
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#19I would be very curious to learn what sort of non-disparagement clauses existed in the Whatsapp/Facebook purchase contract. And how exactly they were worded.
I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
Where did you hear this, and what's the reason? Just various rats taking their millions or billions and getting out while the getting a good?
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#20Alert: this comment may be seen as self serving.
I work on an app that has been gaining popularity precisely because it's a way to keep in touch with family and friends with no social media aspect (called Marco Polo, a video walkie talkie). I'm curious if there is going to be enough of a backlash to return to more organic face to face (and actually interactive) communication versus broadcast mode and pretending to be something that will seem impressive. That seems to be true of our users anyway.