Paul Stenhouse: Tech - WhatsApp on multiple devices and the beginning of the end of Twitter?
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame · Newstalk ZB
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You can now use WhatsApp on multiple devices
Still one phone, but up to four other devices. This seems like a seemingly simple thing, but it's taken years to make it happen - because keeping your messages in sync, and fully encrypted, was a challenge. This now means you'll be able to use WhatsApp on your computer, without needing your phone to be connected or linked.
Meta's earnings sent their stock price soaring this week. They brought in $28.6 billion in revenue last quarter, up 3% on last year. They now have 3 billion people using at least one of their products daily.
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Twitter?
There certainly seems to be momentum around a new twitter clone called Bluesky. It's still in beta and invites are the golden tickets of the internet at the moment. It looks exactly like Twitter - because it was actually started by Twitter before Twitter was bought by Elon Musk. This was a project to create a decentralised social network protocol.
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