WhatsApp is going big with its Groups feature which will soon allow all its users up to 1024 members as part of a group. The option made its way to the beta version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS this week, which means a public release is likely in the coming months.
Users with access to the beta version can try out the new option, which will be available when a person tries to create a new WhatsApp group, where they will see an option to add 1024 members to that group.
WhatsApp realizes the potential and popularity of the group feature, which has become a one-stop option for people to connect with multiple people around the same topic. The most popular are family WhatsApp groups, work WhatsApp groups and even groups where people have the same interest in movies, sports and more.
WhatsApp started with the group feature with 256 members which was later increased to 512 members. Now WhatsApp users will have the option to have more than 1000 members in a group. Still, you could say that this figure is far less than the 2 million members Telegram supports for its groups, where people can reply, mention and communicate with a much larger group of people.
Speaking of Telegram, the platform’s founder Pavel Durov recently alleged that WhatsApp has been a surveillance tool and that its encryption standards do not make sense if the platform regularly has vulnerabilities. His statement comes days after WhatsApp released a critical update that reportedly exposed some security issues to users exposed to hackers.
WhatsApp is also no longer the messaging app that we have been used to for years. Nowadays, WhatsApp allows businesses to connect with its users, and in some cases, this has created WhatsApp spam problems for users.
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