2023-05-22 21:55:10
WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging service, is rolling out a new feature in the coming weeks. The subsidiary of the giant Meta, which also controls Facebook and Instagram, will now allow its more than 2 billion users to modify messages sent, the company announced Monday on its blog.
This possibility will be available for fifteen minutes, following sending a message, specifies the group, which adds that the messages having been changed will be accompanied by the mention “modified”. Recipients will therefore be able to know if the text received has been the subject of any correction, “without the history of modifications being displayed”, indicates WhatsApp. The feature, still “being rolled out”, will be “available to everyone in the coming weeks”.
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An option already available from competitors
Meta pattern Mark Zuckerberg for his part praised this development on his Facebook account by posting a screenshot of a modified message. Until now, WhatsApp offered the possibility of deleting a sent message – replacing it with the words “this message has been deleted” – but not of correcting it.
Several competing messaging services, such as Telegram or Signal, already allow you to modify the messages sent. An option also offered for a long time on the other two Meta platforms, Instagram and Facebook. As for the Twitter social network, where this potential development has been agitating and dividing users for years, a tweet editing feature, limited to 30 minutes, has been implemented in connection with a subscription to its paid service Twitter Blue .
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