Snapchat done, Facebook currently goes after Telegram by replicating unidirectional broadcast feature in WhatsApp

Imitation is the best kind of compliments? Ask Snapchat, and now Telegram. 

WhatsApp has simply discharged a unidirectional broadcast feature for groups
 in what is a replica of rival electronic communication app Telegram’s key channel feature.

The new setting, proclaimed on WhatsApp official diary, will permit group admins to send vital announcements and knowledge while not being interrupted by any tangential voice communication from receivers. This can be significantly helpful for college groups, NGOs, news agencies, and so on.

But, the new feature’s similarity with Telegram’s standard unidirectional channel 

broadcast is clear. Facebook, that owns WhatsApp, has within the past aped Snapchat’s 

options and brought them to Instagram. Now, by going once after Telegram that counts

200 million monthly active users, Facebook has valid its competition within the quick 

social electronic messaging house.

“One way people use groups is to receive necessary announcements and data, together
with people and academics at faculties, community centres, and non-profit organisations.
We've introduced this new setting so that admins will have higher tools for these
use cases,” WhatsApp proclaimed.

The new feature are often enabled by tapping on Group info > Group Settings > 

Send Messages > only Admins. WhatsApp said that the feature has been 

unrolled to users everywhere over the planet and is out there with the most recent app 

upgrade. WhatsApp has over 1.5 billion monthly users, of that 200 million users are

in India.

Unlike Telegram, though, users who prefer to check in for the unidirectional broadcasts 

can need to do thus with their phone numbers. Telegram, with its username system, has 

eliminated the necessity for sharing phone numbers, therefore making certain higher 

privacy in Groups. Incidentally, Telegram featured a ban in Russia recently for being 

associate degree encrypted platform.

WhatsApp, meanwhile, has launched a spate of recent options within the past few months. 

Before this, it introduced ‘group descriptions’ that enables new members to catch-up 

with the goings-on in an exceedingly explicit group. Last week, WhatsApp conjointly

 proclaimed that it might be setting up on all-day client helpline in India for its 

WhatsApp Pay service (that is yet to possess a full rollout).