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WhatsApp is preparing new tools with which it seeks to offer greater privacy to its more than 2 billion users.
These new Meta-owned platform tools are focused on profile picture, “About” and statuses.
In order to continue competing, Telegram has its Premium version ready, which will launch at the end of this month.
WhatsApp now returns with new privacy toolsmaking some improvements to profile photos and statuses.
While Telegram hopes to launch its premium version before the end of the month, WhatsApp continues to update itself and offer new options to its millions of users.
The competition in the social media market does not stop and, every day, the platforms need to be at the forefront at a crucial moment in the internet age.
Today, from the outset, we know that there is a greater community on the web, almost five billion Internet users, of which 4.6 billion are registered on social networksbe it Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc., according to the 2022 digital report from Hootsuite and We Are Social.
This is the new thing that will come to WhatsApp in terms of privacy
Now, we must take into account that, as of today, WhatsApp has more than two billion users, a fact that has allowed it, for years, to lead the market in terms of instant messaging applications.
Telegram, for its part, only registers a little over 550 million users, which, unlike WhatsApp, have other types of platforms within the same social network, such as the opportunity to stream, meet with more users, among others. others.
In order to continue reaching a greater number of users, WhatsApp has some new privacy features in the worksfocused, above all, on the profile picture and the states.
“To further protect your online security, we are rolling out new options for greater privacy control.
Now, you can select who from your contact list can see your profile picture, “About” and “Last seen” status, WhatsApp wrote in a statement that it shared on its social networks.
? To further protect your privacy online, we’re rolling out new options to your privacy control settings ?
Now you can select who from your contact list can see your Profile Photo, About, and Last Seen status. For more information follow this link: https://t.co/UGMCx2n70h
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) June 15, 2022
Telegram responds to WhatsApp and prepares a Premium version
As we mentioned above, WhatsApp is not the only platform to be updated, since Telegram, one of its main competitors, is beginning to gain importance, which is why it is looking to offer better content, yes, in exchange for a payment. .
That, broadly speaking, is about Telegram Premium, the service that could arrive by the end of June, according to what the company’s CEO, Pavel Durov, mentioned through an official statement:
“The only way to let our most demanding fans get more while keeping our existing features free is to make those high limits a paid option.”Durov mentioned.
Even the social network, a few days ago, changed its slogan: from being “free forever”, the platform changed to “Telegram provides free and unlimited cloud storage for chats and media”.
It should be noted that Telegram Premium will cost $4.99 per month and will allow subscribers to access a large number of advantages compared to the free version.