Instinct's contacts-based network effects may hit Meta's WhatsApp wall

dick costolo @dickcOriginally posted 2026.10.07

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this is impressive and of course the route to network effects for personal agents but i assume Meta will block it from whatsapp and save that for muse, since that’s been their playbook, well, forever. You can imagine a world in which Instinct wins the US and Meta wins rest of world (as one of many potential consequences). in any case, very impressive shipping cadence from the Instinct team.

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