In the recent news of Facebook-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp is analysing a feature through testing that will probably give users the option of sharing their status Stories straight to the additional social networking platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Gmail and Google Photos.
WhatsApp’s status Stories are just like Instagram that let the users to post their images, text as well as videos on your profile that further gets disappear after 24 hours.
The Verge on Wednesday reported that “As part of the experiment, users listed WhatsApp’s beta programme, would start to see a new sharing option beneath their statuses that would ask them if they want to further share the same Story on any of the other apps,”
Giving details of the working and functioning of the feature, the report said the test feature is going to mark the use of the similar iOS as well as Android data-sharing APIs like every other app, that would transfer data in the middle of the apps, on-device.
At present, there is no option or choice to have WhatsApp status automatically shared to an additional service and the instant messaging app aims that the feature should be an active choice on the part of the operator.
On the other hand, elaborating the information and specifics on the test locations as well as final roll-out of the feature remains unidentified still at present.
In a lot of means, this test seems to be a development in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make a combined app merging WhatsApp, Facebook as well as Instagram to let more than 2.6 billion users connect with each other cross-apps by the year 2020.
This step may possibly let the social networking huge seller higher user engagement to advertisers, as a result, ramping up its advertising division at a time when the progress has braked down.
On the other hand, the report also said that WhatsApp has to be cautious about making the impression of data sharing with Facebook.
WhatsApp is the world’s largest online social networking messaging application which is used by more than 200 million users in India itself. It has continued its debut as add free platform and since then it is the same but things started changing after WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. The app was first released in the year 2009, and then afterward it was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
WhatsApp Status on the other hand was launched back in the year 2017 and has since grown to be used by 500 million users day-to-day, and in the year 2020, it is going to turn into the first place in the WhatsApp app to show ads.
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