Pressure from Zoom's popularity: WhatsApp will allow video calls with 50 people

June Green
May 13, 2020   
An Israeli family celebrates the "passover seder" with family through the video-calling app, on the first night of the 8-day long Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tzur Hadassah, April 8, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ??? ??? ?????? ??? ???????? ?????? ??? ????
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The Zoom app, which has become one of the symbols of the Corona era, has put pressure on its competitors.

According to a post on the WABetaInfo blog, WhatsApp, owned by the social networking giant Facebook, will soon release an answer that will allow multi-party video calls in the browser version on a computer.

The WABetaInfo blog recently noticed a new icon in the menu in the beta version of the app, clicking on which leads users to Facebook's new Messenger Rooms - a new service in Facebook's instant messaging app that allows for multi-party video calls.

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On Facebook's service, users can create rooms and define who is allowed to join, as well as remove participants during the conversation and change the background.

The new feature has not yet been officially released as it is still in development, but it will likely appear soon.


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