In its bid to further compete with Snapchat, Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced a new feature called Status. It’s basically a version of Snapchat Stories, with the addition of full encryption.

In fact, WhatsApp has had a “status” tab in the app when it first launched in February 2009. However, it was just a text-based feature designed to show a user’s current availability. Today, the update that’s rolling out for Android, iOS and Windows Phone add much more functionality. Like Snapchat Stories, the revamped Status feature in WhatsApp lets users share photos and videos with friends, and those images will disappear after a short period of time. Unlike Snapchat Stories, though, the team at WhatsApp claims any shared content in the Status tab is “end-to-end encrypted”, which may attract more users who are concerned about security.
This is, of course, not the first such “clone” of Snapchat Stories. Another Facebook-owned app, Instagram, launched Instagram Stories in 2016. That launch has reportedly affected usage for Snapchat as a whole. In its recent IPO filing, the company showed that its growth rate went from 17.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016 down to a growth rate of just 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter of the year, after Instagram Stories launched.

This new feature for WhatsApp could also affect growth for Snapchat as well down the road. That could potentially be bad news as the company prepares to go public. It hopes to start trading its shares sometime in early March.

By the way, TechCrunch reports that WhatsApp currently has 1.2 billion monthly users worldwide, and they are sending 60 billion messages a day. That includes 3.3 billion photos, 760 million videos and 80 million GIFs. Are you a WhatsApp user? It’s time you get an update.
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Cool.

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Ok

Welcomed development, but they should put an option where you can control video quality to save data. Snapchat video quality is so high that even a story alone eats up almost 20mb, wtf

Can't wait for the upgrade

Nice one from whatsapp... Lemme quickly go and update my own on my itel S31, don't want to be left out

Another good feature from WhatsApp....

Akpevwe9:
Nice one from whatsapp... Lemme quickly go and update my own on my itel S31, don't want to be left out

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good one watsapp . its what I will check it on my itelS31 phone

Good competition mehn

I just observed it on my WhatsApp this evening and another 'camera' feature too.

For me its trash..... I prefer the way it was before this "status" of a thing

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Where dem stay announce am

facebook owning everything

Am not updating whatsapp till further notice. I dont trust Mark. Its even getting close to the time i will stop using all his product. I see his products as wrongful policing.

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It's for those who are 'based on social media' and make it their niche .
For me its just a basic means of 'keeping in touch', no time for the razzmatazz.

Akpevwe9:
Nice one from whatsapp... Lemme quickly go and update my own on my itel S31, don't want to be left out

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Ok

Good

Whatapp really up for it

Akpevwe9:
Nice one from whatsapp... Lemme quickly go and update my own on my itel S31, don't want to be left out

U mean d 5mp fone