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713 points greenburger | 2 comments | 16 Jun 25 13:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.529s | source

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danpalmer ◴[17 Jun 25 01:36 UTC] No.44294952[source]▶

> The promotions will appear only in an area of the app called Updates, which is used by around 1.5 billion people a day

Is that 1.5 billion people engaging with it, or 1.5 billion people seeing it because it's the first tab and then immediately switching to "Chats", the only useful tab in the app?

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1. adithyassekhar ◴[17 Jun 25 01:50 UTC] No.44295054[source]▶

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Chats is the default and first tab.

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2. signal11 ◴[17 Jun 25 06:37 UTC] No.44296259[source]▶

>>44295054 (TP) #

The chats tab has ads of a sort as well. They’re messages from businesses, as I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296250

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