{"id":16556,"date":"2017-08-30T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16556"},"modified":"2017-08-30T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:37:41","slug":"whatsapp-breaks-silence-on-its-upcoming-celebrity-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16556","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp breaks silence on its upcoming \u2018celebrity feature\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (TNS):<\/strong> Tech wizards were recently holding series of discussions on speculated \u2018WhatsApp for Business\u2019 but little did users know about its background. Now Facebook-owned WhatsApp has confirmed the feature.<\/p>\n<p>According to WhatsApp\u2019s FAQ section\u2019, the messaging platform is now looking for ways to let users connect to businesses easily.<\/p>\n<p>The page claims that WhatsApp is exploring ways for you to communicate with the businesses that matter to you. It also adds that the company has already started verifying business accounts with a green tick badge showing next to its name. The verification means that the company has confirmed the phone number of the account to a business account. The FAQ page also mentions that it will let users know when they can start chatting to the business account via a yellow message inside a chat.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been mentioned that, \u201cthere is no way to delete these messages from the chat.\u201d\u00a0WhatsApp says that if users already have a business\u2019s phone number saved in their address book, the name they see in the name the business has chosen for themselves. Users can also block the business if they don\u2019t want to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore it has been revealed that the feature is limited to \u2018a small number of businesses participating in a pilot program.\u2019 It is not for sure when exactly the company plans to roll out the feature to wider numbers. While the FAQ page of WhatsApp indicates the implementation of the feature within the main app itself, a separate report from July said that it might launch a new app altogether for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>WaBetaInfo (@wabetainfo), a Twitter account that tracks changes in WhatsApp\u2019s beta builds, said that WhatsApp is working on a new app for small and medium businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (TNS): Tech wizards were recently holding series of discussions on speculated \u2018WhatsApp for Business\u2019 but little did users know about its background. Now Facebook-owned WhatsApp has confirmed the feature. According to WhatsApp\u2019s FAQ section\u2019, the messaging platform is now looking for ways to let users connect to businesses easily. The page claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-16556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}