Have You Seen WhatApp’s New Status Feature?

A form of Snapchat into your What’sApp messaging app.

Yes you heard it right. What’sApp has launched a new feature on its app – the “Status”. This is very very similar to snapchat and Instagram stories where the photos & videos disappear after
24 hrs entirely.

Here’s what Whats’app announced on it’s blog on Feb 20th 2017:

Even after we added messaging in the summer of 2009, we kept the basic “text only” status functionality in WhatsApp. Every year, when Brian and I would plan projects to work on, we always talked about improving and evolving this original “text only” status feature.

We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp’s 8th birthday on February 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Starting today, we are rolling out an update to status, which allows you to share photos and videos with your friends and contacts on WhatsApp in an easy and secure way. Yes, even your status updates are end-to-end encrypted.

Just like eight years ago when we first started WhatsApp, this new and improved status feature will let you keep your friends who use WhatsApp easily updated in a fun and simple way. From all of us at WhatsApp, we hope you enjoy it!

Jan Koum

Since the launch, websites and blogs have shared a lot of posts and opinions on this new feature From how to use it to what does it mean for user and also if Snapchat will
suffer beaucse if this feature within What’sApp. I have curated a few articles below for easy ref.

1. How to use The Feature

2. Will Snapchat suffer from WhatsApp’s new ‘Status’ feature?

3. WhatsApp's new 'Status' feature will change the way you use the messaging app 

4. Everything you need to know about the Snapchat clone

 

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