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11 Jan 2021 LIFESTYLE

The recent policy update by WhatsApp has caused concern among users around the world. The messenger app owned by Facebook announced that it will start sharing user data with other Facebook businesses as part of their policy change.

With 2 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is currently the world’s largest messaging service, closely followed by another Facebook-owned chat app, Facebook Messenger with 1.3 billion users. The third biggest app with 1 billion users is WeChat, which is mainly popular in China 1 billion. At just 400 million users, Telegram trails far behind the Big 3.

A video detailing what the new WhatsApp policy means has been making the rounds on social media:

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For WhatsApp users, the policy change has caused a huge storm with a many exploring their options and threatening to leave the app to join rivals such as Telegram. Telegram seems to be loving the backlash WhatsApp is getting, with the messaging service recently sharing a meme of two SpiderMen bearing the Facebook and WhatsApp icons.

Tweeps also reacted to the new policy change:

We took a look at some interesting Telegram features that make it better than WhatsApp.

Unlimited bandwidth on a cloud

Unlimited storage is provided by Telegram. In other words, all your text messages, photos, media files and documents will be stored on your cloud.

Compression of the Media

Users can choose whether to compress or send an uncompressed version of an image or video.

Capacity of group member numbers

Telegram’s standard community capacity is 200. But when this is reached, the group evolves into a 5000-capacity Super Group.

Username feature

Even if you do not have the contact number of anyone, you can connect with someone by Telegram. This secures the protection of the phone number of the user.

Secret Chat

Secret Chat is a kind of encrypted end-to-end chat in which you can set a timer for the message to self-destruct. When the timer stops, the messages will be immediately deleted.

Support for Multi-Platform

Telegram is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows PC, Mac OS, Linux OS and any browser.

Are you going to ditch WhatsApp for Telegram? Tweet us @kayafm95dot9 and let us know.

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