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(WABetaInfo) posted on his Twitter page with the latest WhatsApp updates,The latest beta channel update from WhatsApp will allow for larger group chats. Currently, the service allows for group chats with 256 users. The feature will soon be available to all users, which will allow 512 users to chat at the same time.
WhatsApp announced the larger group size feature a month earlier; the feature will soon be rolling out to all beta users. Users can now create and join group chats with up to 512 people with this update. Previously, this was limited to 256 people. That is quite a difference from Telegram's 200,000-user group chat limit. Still, it allows users to take part in more public communities and create their own.
WhatsApp has experienced a lot of changes in the last few months. A number of updates were made to WhatsApp voice notes in March, including resuming and pausing functionality, previewing voice notes, and listening to voice notes outside of the chat. Moreover, WhatsApp now allows file-sharing of 2GB, a 20-fold increase over before.
WhatsApp has been tightly integrated with Facebook services and Messenger since Facebook purchased it in 2014. Despite the fact that WhatsApp-Messenger cross-chat isn't in the works yet, it'll be interesting to see how things pan out in the future.
The History of WhatsApp:
How a Simple Messaging App Became a Global Phenomenon,
In 2009, WhatsApp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, two employees of the famous company, Yahoo! Koum began writing the code for WhatsApp in October 2009, and Acton joined him the following month. In June 2010, Apple launched push notifications, allowing users to be pinged when they were not using an app. Koum changed WhatsApp so that when a user’s status was updated, everyone in the user’s network would be notified immediately, even if they were not using the app at that time. The idea came to him while reminiscing about his mother waking up relatives with phone calls when he was young. Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Facebook’s history, and one of the largest startup acquisitions in history overall. So how did this simple messaging app become so valuable? To understand that, we need to look at the history of WhatsApp. And we’re not just talking about the recent history—we’re talking about the full story from idea to global phenomenon, spanning more than 15 years. Let’s dig in...
In 2009, WhatsApp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, two employees of the famous company, Yahoo! Koum began writing the code for WhatsApp in October 2009, and Acton joined him the following month. In June 2010, Apple launched push notifications, allowing users to be pinged when they were not using an app. Koum changed WhatsApp so that when a user’s status was updated, everyone in the user’s network would be notified immediately, even if they were not using the app at that time. The idea came to him while reminiscing about his mother waking up relatives with phone calls when he was young. Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Facebook’s history, and one of the largest startup acquisitions in history overall. So how did this simple messaging app become so valuable? To understand that, we need to look at the history of WhatsApp. And we’re not just talking about the recent history—we’re talking about the full story from idea to global phenomenon, spanning more than 15 years. Let’s dig in...