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WhatsApp is a very popular cross-platform instant messaging and voice calling application for mobile devices.
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In addition, it is possible to send text messages, images, videos and documents in PDF and some other ways, including the free connection that only needs access to an internet connection.
Few people know about this new WhatsApp feature that will be available to all users of this most famous messaging application in Brazil.
A very subtle mode is being released that allows you to send videos and photos that may disappear after the recipient opens it once. You were intrigued, come to know this and much more in this article.
Entenda um pouco mais do WhatsApp
WhatsApp is an app for chatting, exchanging messages and communicating via audio and video over the internet.
It is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Nokia smartphones, Mac and Windows computers.
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The app has over 1.5 billion monthly active users spread across over 180 countries.
The application's official name originated from a certain pun with the English expression “What's Up?”, which can be translated into Portuguese as “Eai?” or how are you?".
This app was created in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, the two were former employees of the Yahoo company, in which they sold their creation to Facebook in 2014 for 19 billion dollars (the value at the time).
Nowadays WhatsApp is one of the most used messaging applications around the world, especially outside its country of origin, which is the United States.
Mainly in Brazil, India and some countries in Europe, the app is one of the most popular and is one of the most famous and known among cell phone users.
“WhatsApp was originally used as an alternative to the SMS system and now supports sending and receiving various media files,” the company said on its official website.
“Behind every decision, we are eager to enable people to communicate seamlessly anywhere in the world.”- they stressed.
WhatsApp is a free application, although in the beginning users were warned that they had to pay US $1 per year – this fee is rarely implemented, at least in Brazil.
Nowadays, there is also a commercial version of the application, called WhatsApp Business, which makes money by selling APIs to companies.
Quando o Facebook comprou o WhatsApp
THE Facebook acquired the Whatsapp for $$19 billion in February 2014. A few months later, the startup was valued at $$1.5 billion.
The new boss allowed Acton, Koum and their teams to implement some of the app's most important features, such as audio and video calling.
Around the same time, Fortune magazine revealed that WhatsApp almost had another owner. Before Facebook, Google was the one who offered to acquire this $$10 billion startup.
The transaction did not materialize because, in addition to granting fewer resources, the company did not want WhatsApp to have a place on the board of directors.
As of August 2014, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world with 600 million monthly active users.
As of January 2015, the number has reached 700 million, and over 30 billion messages are sent every day.
A year later, the number of users reached 1 billion. In 2016, the number of employees in the WhatsApp team only exceeds 100.
Fifty-seven of them are software engineers who develop new features and are responsible for the day-to-day experience.
If we were to calculate, it would be as if each engineer was responsible for almost 57 million people.
In the same year, WhatsApp stopped charging US$$1 every 12 months and became basically a free service.
At the same time, Jan Koum announced that the application will not display ads – a principle that the founder of the startup has adhered to since the first version.
Many years later, this will be the key to separate the founder of WhatsApp from Facebook, the new owner of the application.
Brian Acton and Jan Koum oppose the use of advertising as a way to monetize apps.
But Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg disagreed. The topic – how to make WhatsApp profitable – basically put Acton and Facebook at odds.
In 2017, the launch of Whatsapp Business, which is a free version of the app for small businesses, and WhatsApp Enterprise for large companies, who can also pay for special APIs to serve large groups of customers.
In 2018, the two founders left the company.
Saiba mais deste novo recurso!
The new one is a privacy device: if a file is not opened within a certain amount of time, it too will expire.
According to WABetaInfo, the tool is already being tested for users who installed the Whatsapp Beta on Android system and are making noise.
In addition, it will also be released for Apple mobile phones. So after fixing all the errors, everyone who installed Messenger should be able to use it.
In this new feature of Whatsapp, a new clock icon appears in the lower-right corner of the photo, next to the send button.
So just select the timer before clicking “Send” and the media will be shared in a single view in the conversation.
Single view also applies to groups. Finally, there is no print prompt for this feature, and even if single view is enabled, the recipient will be given the opportunity to take a screenshot of the photo.
If you still have any questions or want to know more about it, just access the official website that specializes in this WABetaInfo, he is well known for being the first-hand spokesperson for releasing updates and features of the application.
Many people have heard about this new feature, and can't wait for it to be released. But in the same way that some others didn't like it so much, however this opinion varies a lot.
Like this new feature? I hope this article has answered all your queries.
