WhatsApp’s New Status Feature Looks A Lot Like Snapchat Stories

WhatsApp’s New Status Feature Looks

 A Lot Like Snapchat Stories

Today, for the first time the WhatsApp new feature: You can now include your status updates, photos, videos and GIF files. Such as stories on snapchat, and they will also last for only 24 hours. Previously, status updates on the basis of the text and stayed as long as you left them.

The new version of status updates is rolling across Europe this week, is likely to hit the rest of the world in the weeks shortly after, according to Lal WhatsApp.

The updates exchange once the function of the WhatsApp only, but soon after its founding period and then turned to the application text messages, and has become one of the most popular messaging services in the world.

As with the text WhatsApp talks, it will be encrypted updates by default. And the people in your contacts to be able to see your status updates, but you can determine who can and can not be seen. You can also send them en masse to individuals with the WhatsApp broadcast feature, which sends the same message to several individual talks.

Feature looks a lot like the stories of Instagram, which looks a lot like snapchat stories. WhatsApp updates to mimic the bars at the top of the screen from Instagram stories, which show how much time remains in the story. It owns all of the Instagram and the WhatsApp of Facebook.

When asked if the WhatsApp was borrowed consciously from biting, the product of WhatsApp Randall School Uniform Manager, "I do not think that there is coordination in one application only at this stage. This is said model that others have contributed to and adopted on a large scale, and we have adopted it ourselves. It is the basis for the things we want people to be able to participate. " Unlike snapchat, the WhatsApp does not plan to introduce the ads in the new situation advantage.

The kidnapper may have reason to worry about the increasing competition from other social applications company launched similar features to its side. In 2016, a recession monthly active users in growth compared to Instagram and snow stories, an application-esque snapchat be booming in Asia. Facebook and Messenger both integrated features similar to snapchat stories.

He said the school uniform timing of the update has to do with the impending IPO sudden thing, but coincides with the anniversary of WhatsApp in the eighth on February 24

Update to the advantage of the situation, he said the school uniform, is the culmination of three things the WhatsApp has focused in the past year. So retooled how the application handles the video so you can play a video on the spot in the application instead of downloading it, it repaired the camera in the application to provide a more compelling experience, and it made it possible to send and share pictures GIF. The new camera WhatsApp, which debuted in October 2016, allows you to crop an advantage, adding emoticons, text, draw pictures much in the same way you can on snapchat.

"These are things that people see it already," school uniforms. "So we do not want them to be jumping out of the application we have to do.

"A lot of our users, especially those outside the United States where there is not a lot of choices, who spend most of their time in the WhatsApp, will find this is a new way to share media. That does not mean they have to update the WhatsApp center and then do the same thing in another application. "

It saw the messaging app sharing media explode over the past year between $ 1.2 billion users (up from a billion a year earlier). The uniforms for the users to send WhatsApp 3300000000 images per day, double what they did this time last year, and 760 million videos a day, triple the amount in the past year. Since the launch of the ability to share GIF images in November it has seen the application of this type of sharing the increase to 80 million mobile per day. In general, people on the WhatsApp to send 50 billion messages per day.

"Video is a form difficult to deal with when you've got such a diverse user base", said the school uniform. "They're on all types of phones and different networks, and videos are the biggest essence of the images. It is a challenge, but a particularly rich."