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WhatsApp launches Channels feature for broadcast messages

Meta-Owned WhatsApp has launched a new feature called "Channels" that enables select organisations to broadcast news and updates to followers on the messaging service. The feature comes as more organisations become disenchanted with Twitter due to high fees, performance issues, and reduced content moderation.
Channels is described as a private broadcast service and will allow administrators to send users text, photos, videos, stickers, and polls. The option will not use end-to-end encryption and store messages for 30 days, but may offer encryption in the future for non-profit or health organisations.

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Times of India

WhatsApp launches new feature 'Channels'. What is it? - WhatsApp Channels

Meta owned WhatsApp has launched yet another feature on its platform - Channels - which the company said is a simple, reliable, and private way to receive important updates from people and organizations, right within the app. "We’re building Channels in a new tab called Updates - where you’ll find Status and channels you choose to follow - separate from your chats with family, friends, and communities," it said in a blog. WhatsApp Channels

1 year ago·India

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News18 India

WhatsApp Releases Channels Feature: Here's How It Works

According to Zuckerberg, as a channel admin, your phone number won't be shown to followers, and following a channel won't show that to the admin or others following the channel either.

1 year ago·India

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Reuters

Meta introduces broadcast tool Channels on WhatsApp

Meta Platforms on Thursday introduced WhatsApp Channels, a feature that the social media giant said would help make the app a "private broadcast messaging product."

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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Globo

WhatsApp launches' Channels' feature to take on Telegram

The Channels will be placed in a new tab called “Updates”, separate from conversations and groups. In it, the user will find the Status and the channels that they choose to follow

1 year ago·Brazil

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Metro News

WhatsApp announces new feature to broadcast your messages

The new feature will be a one-way broadcast tool for admins to send text, photos, videos, stickers, and polls (Picture: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Popular messaging service WhatsApp has introduced a new feature called Channels to make the app a ‘private broadcast messaging product’. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted about the feature on social media, calling it ‘a private way to follow people and organisations that ma…

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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CNBC

Meta to debut new Channels broadcasting tool for WhatsApp

Meta announced a new broadcasting feature dubbed Channels for its WhatsApp messaging service intended for people and organizations to send one-way messages.

1 year ago·United States

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