2023-06-08 10:48:02
After Instagram, WhatsApp. The Meta messaging application announces this Thursday the upcoming launch of a new feature: chat channels. Like what already exists on Telegram, users will be able to create a channel in which they can broadcast their messages, photos, videos, polls and stickers to subscribers.
It will thus be possible to join a discussion channel and react to posted messages. But no comment possible: unlike Twitter, Facebook, only emojis can be issued in response to content. A device that again takes up that of … Telegram.
FC Barcelona and WHO among the first users
“WhatsApp channels will be accessible from a new dedicated tab “Act”which will separate individual or group conversations as well as Communities”, underlines the Meta group in a press release. “This new feature will first be launched in Singapore and Colombia,” he also says, without giving an exact launch date.
The “chat channels” should then be extended to other countries, with strong structures to carry this update. The World Health Organization (WHO), FC Barcelona and Manchester United are already among the names announced. But again, impossible to know when.
A launch a few days after an appearance on Instagram
These announcements come as the feature is gradually rolled out to another Meta Group social network, Instagram. Called “Channels” on this one, it is already used by the French influencer Léna Situations.
This tool currently reserved for the most popular accounts allows, just like the WhatsApp discussion channels in the long term, to send text, photos and videos, but also voice notes or surveys to their subscribers.
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