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WhatsApp is bringing back its very first feature
WhatsApp is going back to the past for its latest feature. In fact, it’s going all the way back, because it’s reviving the very first WhatsApp feature. You can think of About (the creators were really not very good at naming things, huh?) as a status update or WhatsApp’s version of an AIM away message. It’s designed to let your contacts know at a glance what you’ve got going on, such as something that’s keeping you busy and might make you slow to respond to messages.
The About message appears on both your profile and at the top of one-on-one chats. By default, the About message will vanish after 24 hour [...]
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