I am divided about this. In my home country WhatsApp is the Internet (along with Facebook and Twitter). Mobile service providers sell WhatsApp data bundles whic

I am divided about this. In my home country WhatsApp is the Internet (along with Facebook and Twitter). Mobile service providers sell WhatsApp data bundles which are orders of magnitude more affordable than "normal" data bundles. So we all communicate via WhatsApp. We use WhatsApp groups and it works well. News, videos, pictures everything I get by WhatsApp from contacts. IMHO it works well because there is not advertising and no bots spamming us. Some of the groups are noisy but you can mute. I am divided because I like WhatsApp as it is right now. But we are not paying for it and the money has to come from somewhere. Using third party providers like Twilio is probably one way to pay for it. I am divided because having to use Twilio is likely to freeze out developers from my home country. C'est la vie.