Android users have got loads of options when it comes to taking notes and saving the links to visit later. You have got your pick of best note-taking apps, or you can just rely on something you already use every day like Slack or Telegram, those messaging services allow you to save the messages for later and message yourself. WhatsApp is now interested in playing a catch-up, and is now testing out its own enhancements to self-messaging. It sounds a bit silly to message yourself if you are not used to it, but it has its uses instead of installing dedicated app like Pocket to manage web links to revisit or an app like Google Tasks to maintain grocery lists.
As a multi-device support is already available, you could use chats with yourself to transfer small files between the devices. With new 2.22.24.2 beta release of Android app, WABetaInfo points out that select WhatsApp beta testers are getting access to try out “Message yourself” feature. As the name suggest, WhatsApp is adding chat option somewhat strange labeled “Me(You)”. When you will tap on the floating action button in the lower-right corner of the screen, it will prompt you to message new contact, a new group or a new Community. Under these options you see a list of all your contacts who also use WhatsApp. The new option to message yourself could sit atop the list of your contacts.
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.