On Thursday, Founder of Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed ‘Communities on WhatsApp,’ as well as several new features such as 32-person video calling, in-chat polls, and groups with up to 1,024 users, which will be useful for groups in addition to Communities.
Mark Zuckerberg officially confirmed that ‘Communities on WhatsApp’ will begin rolling out to users globally over the next few months and will be available to everyone.
“Today we’re launching Communities on WhatsApp. It makes groups better by enabling sub-groups, multiple threads, announcement channels, and more. We’re also rolling out polls and 32-person video calling. All secured by end to end encryption so your messages stay private,” said the Meta CEO.
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WhatsApp has been working on Communities, a significant update to how users will be able to interact on WhatsApp in groups that are important to them.
Communities such as neighbourhoods, school parents, and workplaces can now connect multiple groups under one umbrella to arrange group chats on WhatsApp.
To get started, Android phone users can click on the latest communities tab located at the top of their chats and iOS users can click on the bottom.
They will now be able to create new Communities from scratch or join existing ones.
Users can effortlessly switch among available groups once in a community to get the information they need, when they need it, and administrators can send important updates to all the members of the Community.
WhatsApp Communities aims to raise the bar for how organisations communicate by providing a level of security and privacy which is not found anywhere else.
Other features such as in-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and groups with up to 1,024 participants can be used in any group but will be especially useful in Communities.
The company has been collaborating with about 50 organizations in 15 countries to develop Communities to cater to their needs, and the feedback so far indicates that these software inventions are assisting groups like these in better organising and achieving their goals.
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