WhatsApp Rolls out Larger Group Chats, 'Communities' Feature
03 Novembre 2022 - 11:46AM
Dow Jones News
By Ben Otto
WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook parent company
Meta Platforms Inc., is rolling out features including larger chat
groups, 32-person video calls and the option to create a collection
of group chats under a single organizer.
WhatsApp said in a blog post Thursday that it will now allow
group chats of up to 1,024 people, video calls of up to 32 people
and in-chat polls. Whatsapp had previously limited group chats to
256 people.
The company has also begun the global rollout of a Communities
feature that will allow the creation of multiple groups under one
organizer, such as a school, family, neighborhood or workplace. The
service -- plans for which were unveiled in April -- will be
available globally in the coming months, WhatsApp said.
WhatsApp, which had more than 2 billion users worldwide as of
early 2020, highlighted the end-to-end encryption built into its
messaging.
"With Communities, we're aiming to raise the bar for how
organizations communicate with a level of privacy and security not
found anywhere else," Whatsapp said. "The alternatives available
today require trusting apps or software companies with a copy of
their messages -- and we think they deserve the higher level of
security provided by end-to-end encryption."
Write to Ben Otto at ben.otto@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 03, 2022 06:31 ET (10:31 GMT)
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