On: Facebook Acquires Beluga

[tuhin]

Correct me if I am wrong, but while the talent acquisition makes sense because the execution from the Beluga team has been brilliant, but why the technology? I mean are not they using Twilio's API for the most part of the service?

[ryanwaggoner → tuhin]

Zuck has stated several times that Facebook only acquires for talent. So if you love your product, don't sell it to Facebook :)

[finiteloop → ryanwaggoner]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2277570

[nl → finiteloop]

I suspect the author of this post may be a little better informed about Facebook's intentions than most other HN posters.

[j2d2j2d2 → nl]

Finiteloop = Bret Taylor, CTO of Facebook

[nl → j2d2j2d2]

hence a little better informed about Facebook's intentions :)

[j2d2j2d2 → nl]

I was clarifying since you didn't say so explicitly. Best to be clear.

[skeletonjelly → finiteloop]

Where have you been for the last 98 days? Or has there been no Facebook articles on HN since ;)

[geoffc → tuhin]

Beluga doesn't use SMS for the transport layer they use TCP. Groupflier (me) and Groupme use SMS and Twilio. Congrat's to the Beluga team!

[cmdrkeene → geoffc]

GroupMe 2.0 (released today) uses either SMS or Push/TCP in the iPhone and Android apps.

[geoffc → cmdrkeene]

Yes I saw that announcement. Our iPhone app also uses TCP, the goal is to to switch SMS traffic to TCP traffic over time.