WhatsApp Channels Crossed 500 Million Active Users: In today’s time, there is hardly anyone who does not use WhatsApp. If a media report is to be believed, at present WhatsApp is used in more than 180 countries of the world. Keeping these users in mind, the company keeps adding new updates and features every now and then. Due to these features, the experience of users in using the app becomes much better. To improve this experience of the users, the company had recently added the Channels feature to the platform.
500 million users connected to WhatsApp channels: After joining the platform, this feature achieved the milestone of 500 million active users. For information, let us tell you that the company had launched this feature in about 150. Whereas, in India this feature was launched in the month of September.
What is channel feature of WhatsApp: WhatsApp’s Channels feature, like Instagram Broadcast, is a one-way broadcast tool that allows some users to share updates with a large number of WhatsApp users. Only channel owners can send messages to the channel, while other users can react to those messages.
WhatsApp channel will get new feature: According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is rolling out a new beta update that allows channel admins to share stickers with their followers. Sharing the screenshot of the feature, the report says that this feature is currently limited and is available only to some beta testers. The company can release this feature for all users in the coming few days.
How to get updates: To find out if you have the feature to share stickers on channels yet, make sure your WhatsApp beta version is updated to the latest version. Go to your channel tab and pull up the keyboard. If the sticker option appears alongside the emoji keyboard, you have the feature available.
500 million users connected to channels: According to a channel message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the WhatsApp channel crossed 500 million monthly active users within the first seven weeks. WhatsApp channels are found in the Updates tab as seen with WhatsApp status updates on iOS and Android smartphones.