WhatsApp: get groups of up to 256 people – Newspaper Zócalo

ABC.Es / España.- WhatsApp groups are sometimes a nightmare. But users do not have faced the worst because those who use the application may be part of groups of up to 256 members.

As has unveiled the portal “NDTV Gadgets360.com” Android and Apple are the first systems operations that have, so far, with this development. IOS users can see how groups of up to 256 people are possible with version 2.12.13 of the application, while users of the operating system Google will have to download the latest version v2.12.437. Both are available now.

Users who want to see if they can and create groups of up to 256 people, should go to WhatsApp and click on “Group Information” of any of the forming part. In “participants” the figure of the number of people in the chat of the total is displayed. Eg 50 256

So far, the maximum number of participants in groups WhatsApp was 100, although Telegram, its main rival, still holds the record: 1,000 people in the same chat

at first, the application that created Jan Koum allowed only 15 members in a group.. Later expanded to 50 users, and although this fell short when maximum Telegram, his modest rival, was 200 already.

Integration of WhatsApp on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, goes one step further in its goal of wanting to connect people. In this regard, we must not forget that the company recently announced it would charge its users and advanced to improve the service to become a channel of communication between companies and customers, much along the lines of the strategy of Facebook.

judging by the results, it seems that WhatsApp is on track. Recall that the application has already surpassed the barrier of one billion users worldwide, doubling its audience since Facebook bought it in 2014, and generated a profit of 3,690 million dollars in 2015. And is that users share a day about 42,000 million messages and 1,600 million photos, videos sent 250 million and, after seven years, have created 1,000 million groups.

Now, the next step is to allow the users to integrate their Facebook account with the instant messaging application, a possibility that has ated a great debate. Although it has always been speculated that the social network spy WhatsApp conversations, to make it happen, user privacy shine by their absence. We’ll see how they develop this option with which users can transfer their data from one service to another.