The case of WhatsApp is very curious. In countries like the United States, it’s just another messaging app, while in others like Europe, it’s the preferred choice for most users.
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But no country loves WhatsApp more than India, where it’s the default method of communication for millions and millions of people; to the point where other services have no choice but to give in to their dominance.
whatsapp and twitter
This is exactly what happened on Twitter, where it is already possible to find a WhatsApp icon directly in the application and the social network site. Indeed, Twitter promotes the app of a “competitor”, Facebook, simply because it is the most used app and that it suits them.
The novelty is quite simple. This is a new WhatsApp icon that now appears as a replacement for the share button; After all, if you have WhatsApp, why do you need other apps? Or at least, that seems to be the logic of this change.
some of you might see a WhatsApp Share icon and if so let us know what you think pic.twitter.com/Y23vWUPTs1
— Twitter India (@TwitterIndia) September 8, 2022
The button works exactly the same as the basic share button, except that it allows us to send the tweet via WhatsApp to any of our contacts. It does not open a special menu, but only opens the WhatsApp application and allows us to select who we want to send the tweet to.
The WhatsApp button so far only appears on Twitter if we visit India, and the decision has been met with criticism but also with praise. On the one hand, many wonder if this change makes sense, given that the share button already offers us the possibility of sending the tweet via WhatsApp; this button simply removes the need for a tap, but otherwise the experience is identical.
It would have been very different if Twitter had integrated WhatsApp directly into the platform, allowing us to send messages without opening the application, but surely that would be too much for the company. In fact, users who are happy with this change say they want more integration, for example, allowing us to automatically post WhatsApp statuses as new tweets.
It’s perhaps the strangest change to Twitter yet, and it’s unlikely to make it to other markets, though the company hasn’t made that clear yet.
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