Where RSS-to-WhatsApp pipelines break: a failure catalogue for publishers and B2B content teams

Getting a feed into a WhatsApp group looks like a weekend task. Read the URL, notice new entries, send them. The hard part is everything around those three verbs: who notices when the feed is malformed, who owns the night shift, who pays per message, who has admin rights. This post lists the failure points I would test before trusting any setup, and shows where each of the three usual architectures tends to fail. The configuration itself is covered step by step in the 9bot guide to RSS on WhatsApp. Disclosure: 9bot is a commercial tool, billed monthly after a seven day trial, and has no affiliation with Meta. The baseline fact WhatsApp itself never polls a feed. Something outside it…