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WhatsApp tests group conversations with up to 1024 participants
10 October 2022 11:00The latest beta of WhatsApp allows some users to create group conversations with up to 1024 participants. Earlier this year, WhatsApp increased the limit to 512 participants per group conversation.
The increase in the maximum number of participants in group conversations was launched in the beta of WhatsApp for Android and iOS reports WABetaInfo. The feature appears to be available to a limited number of beta users. Users in the test will see a limit of 1024 participants when creating a group conversation on the chat service. It is not known when the limit will be increased for all WhatsApp users.
The maximum number of participants in a WhatsApp group conversation was still 256 before this summer, although the service reached this amount Already increased in June to a maximum of 512 participants. In comparison, Telegram’s messaging service allows up to 200,000 users to participate in the same group conversation. In Signal that number is a maximum of 1000 users.
In addition to increasing the number of participants, WhatsApp is also working on functions to better manage group conversations. For example, the latest WhatsApp beta support options for admitting new group members.
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