This weekend WhatsApp has finally changed its conditions of use after having exhausted the postponement it made to the modifications announced last February. Nothing has been changed, but the company preferred to wait until May 15 for the changes to take effect in order to better explain to users what the new rules imply, given the uproar that had arisen at the beginning of the year and that caused many to migrate to rival platforms like Signal or Telegram and other alternatives to WhatsApp.
Telegram reached 500 million users thanks to the transfer produced after the WhatsApp rules change
The most benefited was the latter, which reached 500 million users worldwide thanks to the changes proposed by WhatsApp and the transfer of users that occurred. The rivalry between the two applications has always been very notorious, and between the companies themselves attacks have been launched on more than one occasion influencing what one has and what the other lacks and vice versa. In the following video we compared both instant messaging apps:
But the confrontation this weekend has developed on social networks such as Twitter, where the Community Managers of both apps have not stopped publishing about the rival company -in advertising you can’t talk about the competition, but that rule does not apply to the Internet and social networks – both in messages posted on their general timeline and in responses to many of the comments made by some tweeters.
For example, Telegram invited to delete WhatsApp -and Facebook incidentally- alluding to the design changes of Windows trash cans over the years:
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) May 14, 2021
For its part, WhatsApp responded by reminding users in a very ironic way that messages on Telegram are not encrypted point-to-point by default:
Telegram admin: «…and what people dont know is we’re not end-to-end encrypted by default» pic.twitter.com/yac1iSMc27
– WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 14, 2021
In another message, in response to a user, the Telegram Community Manager encouraged them to choose “services that respect you … and delete WhatsApp”:
Same as always. Choose services that respect you.
And delete WhatsApp.
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) May 14, 2021
Messages of this type have occurred throughout the weekend and It does not look like the confrontation is going to decline of the two instant messaging apps on the social network throughout this week. We will have to be attentive to how users react to the change in rules that WhatsApp has already begun to apply … and also the Community Managers of the two main applications. Even Signal’s CM was also joining the “party” this weekend.
*checks calendar. pours coffee.* Today’s a great day to switch to privacy. https://t.co/1fIvUmpPJr
— Signal (@signalapp) May 15, 2021
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