"WIRED" declare : WhatsApp status: The Facebook company is introducing Snapchat style stories

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according to The new status feature will allow those using WhatsApp to share photos, videos and GIFs overlaid with drawings, writing and emoji. By February 24, 2017, Koum says his company will have "reinvented" the status feature. At present, WhatsApp's status feature is buried in the setting and profile information and lets a custom message be typed to say what a user is doing. ADVERTISEMENTREAD NEXT You can now send Giphy GIFs to WhatsApp friends on Android. Here's how to use them You can now send Giphy GIFs to WhatsApp friends on Android.


as declared in A year ago, WhatsApp reported that it had 1 billion monthly users and hosted 100 million calls every day. WhatsApp Status is a tab that will allow users to share photos and videos with friends and contacts. This move mirrors an earlier update from Facebook that added live video to its Instagram Stories function in January. TechCrunch reported that the feature mirrors Snapchat as it provides stickers to decorate photos and videos, and the posts will disappear in 24 hours. The platform promises the content will be end-to-end encrypted.

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WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories

The new status update feature is rolling out to WhatsApp users in the Netherlands and France beginning Monday, and to the U.K., Spain, Italy, Israel and Saudi Arabia later in the week. Sarafa says that WhatsApp's users share lots of media within the app, and he believes that will translate to Status as well. But Sarafa reiterated that WhatsApp isn't interested in showing ads to its users, and Monday's update doesn't change that. It looks and feels very much like Snapchat and Instagram Stories. "[We] built on a format that Snapchat invented," Instagram's product boss Kevin Weil explained in December.

WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories


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