Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has recently announced that the group chat limit has been increased from 100 to 256 people. The group chat limit was 100 earlier, which was raised from 50 in November 2014. It is also interesting to note that WhasApp had started off with a 20 member group in the very beginning. The recent development comes days after the popular mobile messaging app announced that it now had more than a billion monthly active users.
One billion people now use WhatsApp. There are only a few services that connect more than a billion people. This milestone is an important step towards connecting the entire world, Zuckerberg, facebook CEO and founder had posted on Facebook.
Based in Mountain View, California, WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers. Around 1.6 billion photos and 250 million videos are being shared daily in 53 languages at WhatsApp. The company also recently waived away its meagre annual subscription fee, making it totally free for its users, like its parent company’s service, facebook.
With this new development, up to 256 users can now be a part of a common WhatsApp group and chat simultaneously with each other. This can come in handy for organisations with many members who would like to stay connected to each other at all hours of the day. It can also be useful among the student fraternity where each stident can remain connected with the entire class and even their extended group of friends.
Let us know about your personal takes on this development through the comments section below.
