WhatsApp launches ephemeral messages, photos, and videos that disappear after seven days, rolling out on iOS and Android globally starting today
Facebook recently announced that WhatsApp passed the whopping milestone of 100 billion messages sent per day, but not everyone wants those chats to stick around forever.
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Discussion
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@alexvoica
Alexandru Voica
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Today, we're excited to introduce the option to use disappearing messages on WhatsApp. When turned on, new messages sent to a chat will disappear after 7 days, helping the conversation feel lighter and more like a face to face conversation: https://blog.whatsapp.com/... https://t…
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@harshmathurx
Doof
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WhatsApp introducing disappearing messages like we're gonna sext on WhatsApp lmao
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@zacbowden
Zac Bowden
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It's like Snapchat but for text, and slower https://twitter.com/...
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@sharonodea
Sharon O'Dea
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This feature is timely given the volume and vigour of swearing the US political shitshow has generated in my WhatsApp 😳 https://twitter.com/...
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@mattnavarra
Matt Navarra
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WhatsApp officially launches new disappearing messages feature The option will auto-delete chat messages for all users in the chat after 7 days ...But you can still screenshot or copy messages before they are deleted https://www.theverge.com/...