Conflicting chats: WhatsApp’s spicy response to a Telegram tweet

In recent months, the mobile messaging service Telegram does not hesitate to assume a position of challenging competitor to WhatsApp, the dominant chat in the industry, with more than 2 billion users worldwide. From its official account on Twitter, Telegram published an illustration that shows the evolution of the distinctive Windows Recycle Bin over the past decades, which ends provocatively with a 2021 trash can showing the WhatsApp and Facebook icons, the company that owns the communication application.

“As always, choose services that respect you. And delete WhatsApp “said Telegram, in one of the many conversations he had from his account with other users who reacted to the publication. Hours later, WhatsApp raised its profile from your official Twitter account and He went out to the crossing with a post accompanied by a meme.

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“The Telegram administrator: what people don’t know is that we don’t have end-to-end encryption by default”WhatApp said in a post accompanied by the annoying girl meme. In this way, WhatsApp refers to the end-to-end encryption, a feature that the company implemented for all the communications of its users, be they text messages (individual or group), calls or voice messages or file exchanges.

“When you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat it is addressed to,” the company said when it made the announcement in 2016. End-to-end encryption is a feature absent on Telegram, but one that its founder Pavel Durov explained in 2017 the company’s position on the matter.

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