Next up in 's quest to clone and undermine Snapchat is WhatsApp: The popular messaging app launched a new feature called Status Monday that is basically a Snapchat Stories clone, with a few Whatsapp-specific tweaks. That's all very much like Snapchat's Stories format, but WhatsApp is giving Status a privacy twist. WhatsApp isn't the first Facebook-owned app to liberally borrow from Snapchat. This means that WhatsApp, or anyone else listening in, won't be able to figure out what anyone is sharing with their friends. The new feature lets uses share photos and videos with their contacts, complete with captions, drawings and stickers.
The Snapchat-like Status feature WhatsApp began testing last November started officially rolling out to users of the Facebook-owned messaging application Monday. We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp's eighth birthday Feb. 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Every year, when (co-founder Brian Acton) and I would plan projects to work on, we always talked about improving and evolving this original "text-only" status feature. Sarafa also discussed the new feature's similarity to Snapchat and whether ads are coming to WhatsApp with Kurt Wagner of Recode: The first version of our app looked like this:Even after we added messaging in the summer of 2009, we kept the basic "text-only" status functionality in WhatsApp.
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The Snapchat-like Status feature WhatsApp began testing last November started officially rolling out to users of the Facebook-owned messaging application Monday. We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp's eighth birthday Feb. 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Every year, when (co-founder Brian Acton) and I would plan projects to work on, we always talked about improving and evolving this original "text-only" status feature. Sarafa also discussed the new feature's similarity to Snapchat and whether ads are coming to WhatsApp with Kurt Wagner of Recode: The first version of our app looked like this:Even after we added messaging in the summer of 2009, we kept the basic "text-only" status functionality in WhatsApp.
read more visit us whatsapp
collected by :Andro Alex
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