Viber Is Latest Messaging App To Copy Snap Chat With ‘Secret Chat’ Feature
Have Viber gone too far this time?
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Everybody is cloning Snapchat at this moment and paying little mind to their initial IPO achievement they must become ill of it.
Nonetheless, informing application Viber has ventured back to the old school by duplicating Snapchat’s principle transient informing highlight.
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Dissimilar to Facebook, which has tossed Snapchat’s 24-hour Story mode into the majority of its center versatile applications, Viber — which was gained by Rakuten for barely short of $1 billion three years back — has duplicated the first element that helped Snapchat first make its name in informing.
Viber for iOS and Android got a refresh today that brings “Mystery Chats” to the administration surprisingly.
Like Snapchat, Facebook, Telegram and numerous others before it, Viber now empowers its clients to set a clock for their messages, after which they will self-destruct.
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The new component likewise alarms a client if the individual to whom they are talking takes a screenshot — that is another element that Snapchat spearheaded.
Viber has guaranteed for quite a while that its administration has more than 800 million enlisted clients, however it has kept noiseless on what number of those are really dynamic — that is the exceedingly vital number.
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It has a solid system of clients in specific parts of Latin America and North Africa, and in Myanmar and the Philippines in Southeast Asia, yet it is a long way from as all around well known as WhatsApp or Messenger.
It’s been a genuinely feverish recent months of news for Viber. It named previous portable promoting official Djamel Agaoua as its CEO a month ago — establishing CEO Talmon Marco left the organization some time prior; he presently runs Uber match Juno — while it has included a scope of new elements that incorporate an internet business catch, open records, one-touch video calling and vanishing mixed media.
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With the worldwide informing space entirely settled as the applications of decision have set their positions in many parts of the world, Viber has all the earmarks of being pushing its security accreditations in a bit to separate itself from the rest.
It added end-to-end encryption and shrouded visits a year ago, in spite of the fact that analysts raised questions around a portion of the organization’s cases.
