Elon Musk has finally bought Twitter with a $44 billion deal. Tesla CEO was seen entering into the Twitter headquarters with a sink on 26th October. With the video of his entry, he tweeted that “let that sink in!” After all this his first action was to fire Twitter executive Parag Agrawal and more leaders from the company.
Elon Musk fired executives escorted off the premises, especially Agrawal and Ned Segal who were responsible for Twitter’s finances. He also fired policy chief Vijaya Gadde which seems to be in line with billionaire’s wish to make Twitter less moderated platform. Elon Musk has promised to get rid of the bots and to add some form of content monetization option for most prolific Tweeters on the platform. He wants to add some crypto payments to platform, including a crypto wallet and more showcasing options for NFTs and NFT creators. The employees are concerned about their jobs. Elon Musk previously made it clear to cut down numerous employees by three quarters, so the morale is very low.

WhatsApp is planning to introduce the beta version of its latest update for the Android users which let you make audio as well as video calling easy for the users. This feature was announced earlier by the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg. However, it was disabled due to unknown reasons for Android as well as iOS users.

The newly introduced feature lets its users to create a call link and it is now finally available to be installed with latest version of WhatsApp. In order to know if the feature is enabled for your account, you need to go to the calls tab to see option to “create call link”. If you see the option, then it means you can start creating shareable link for the calls. You need to select if you want to make audio or video call. These calls can be converted to group call if joined by over two people. In addition to that, the calls are end-to-end encrypted and no one else can neither join them or listen to the contents of the call.

Meta developers are pretty much busy all the time working on the new features for WhatsApp. They are working on bringing the multi-device support to Android tablets and blocking the screenshots of view-once media. Now they are also working on message editing on WhatsApp. While it is still in process, we have been informed that how this feature will end up working.

After so much time demanding for the edit option in Twitter, users have now get one but WhatsApp is still working on it. According to the reports, WhatsApp will provide the users up to 15 minutes to edit their messages after initial sharing. Once edited, the message will appear with a label making it crystal clear that it has been modified, just beside the timestamp showing when it was sent. The question remains that how it will sync between different devices, and what happens if the recipient is offline during the edit window, so you may have to wait for further insight.

Google Keep is a very handy tool which is used for keeping a track of quick little lists and notes on your phone. Google Keep is being enhanced greatly in order to make it more user friendly. Now it will have support for italicizing, bolding and underlining the text. You will have the option to select from few different font sizes.

It has got some in-develop markup changes which also has got few icons highlighting the effects. Google Keep will provide three font-size presets, rather than any kind of control. Now the main question that arises here is when Google might flip the switch and allow us start using these new text formatting options but at the moment none of them have proved accessible. Google could activate these remotely at the same time.

Last year, WhatsApp added an option of hiding your Last Seen status from specific contacts. For the privacy point of view, it was a step taken in the right direction but it is not only the feature that has company has been working on since then. Earlier, WhatsApp introduced the ability to hide your online status and now this feature is working its way to Android version of WhatsApp beta.
With the WhatsApp beta for Android v2.22.16.12 a new privacy setting has been accessed by WABetaInfo. According to their repost, opening the app and navigating to Settings > Account > Privacy > Last seen and online reveals an option to select who can see when you are online. The option is tied in with Last Seen settings directly as you can only select whether to have everyone know your availability or the ones who can see your Last seen. It looks like a straightforward addition but it is an addition that will bridge the gap between official WhatsApp application and mods like GB WhatsApp which users may install for extra privacy.

Now a days WhatsApp has been focusing on emoji, additional controls for group chat administrators and securing the chats. But just a few days ago, Meta CEP Mark Zuckerberg announced that they could look forward to three new privacy-centric changes coming to WhatsApp. The users are starting to see signs of one of those features that Meta’s CEO mentioned i.e. screenshot blocking for view-once messages. So very soon you will not be able to take screenshots and save the messages that senders intended you to see only once.
WhatsApp could follow in Snapchat’s footsteps and notify the sender when a recipient takes a screenshot of the content. When the feature rolls out, a prompt will introduce the beta testers to this improved version of view once media. It also restates you can not share, copy, forward or save the content. Tough it is a step in the right direction but you need to now there are ways to work around a screenshot blocker as well like you can take pictures of WhatsApp media with another device or can start a screen recorder before opening view once content.

WhatsApp group is getting larger and larger day by day/ the group cap is at 256 people which was great for the group of friends as well as classrooms, but it started to get limiting once people wanted to make group chats for larger groups of people. The cap was raised to 512 people just recently. WhatsApp is going to double it again and let you make group chats with more than thousand members.
WhatsApp is now introducing the ability to make groups with up to 1,024 people to a cadre of the beta testers. This feature is rolling out to both Android and iOS devices. If you have the new beta version, you will see increased member cap when you are about to create group chat. A group with more than thousand people will not work differently from how group chats currently work. You will have more people reading and replying your messages. Adding more than thousand people to WhatsApp group chat may look a bit odd especially as this comes only after few months after it doubled the number from 256 to 512 people. But competitor Telegram already lets the users to add up to 200,000 people to join same group chat. If you need to create large group chat, you are required to make sure that you are enrolled in WhatsApp beta.