
WhatsApp Now Lets You Post Ephemeral Messages That Disappear After 7 Days (techcrunch.com) 26
Facebook recently announced that WhatsApp passed the whopping milestone of 100 billion messages sent per day, but not everyone wants those chats to stick around forever. Now, Facebook's wildly popular messaging app with 2 billion users is adding a feature to give people more control on how their words and pictures live within the app. From today, messages -- including photos and videos -- can now be marked to disappear after 7 days. From a report: Disappearing messages are being rolled out globally across Android and iOS starting today, WhatsApp said. While it's starting with a 7 day lifespan, it is already looking at playing around with the time limits. "We will keep an eye on feedback about how people are using it and liking it and see if it needs adjusting in the future," a spokesperson said. "For now we are starting with seven days, because it feels like a nice balance between the utility you need for global text based conversations and the feeling of things not sticking around forever." And just to be clear, the 7-day limit will exist regardless of whether the message gets read or not. (The disappearing message clock starts counting when the message is sent, as it does on other apps like Telegram.)