It is a situation many of us have been in. You send an important message on WhatsApp and then eagerly wait for a reply. One little tick appears to your message. Then two. Then nothing. Your heart sinks. The important message has been ignored - or has it? Up until now many users incorrectly thought the double check indicated a message had been seen. Actually it meant that a message had been received by the handset, not its human owner.
However, WhatsApp's official website has confirmed the messaging service has a new feature, so you'll know when someone has definitely read your message. We introduce to you, the double blue tick!
Whatsapp: What the double tick really means If a group of people are chatting, the two blue ticks will appear when everyone in the group has read the message. Two grey check marks will show up when everyone has received the message. You can also find out the time a message was delivered and read by pressing the message with the double tick - then holding it for a couple of seconds, before selecting "info".
What they really mean Other messaging services already have similar types of notifications to show when someone has seen a message, like Facebook. In 2013, instant messaging apps like Apple's iMessenger, WeChat and Viber overtook the traditional SMS text message for the first time.
Research company Informer found almost 19 billion messages were sent on chat apps in 2012, compared to 17.6 million texts.
spam messages on WhatsApp
WhatsApp becoming the most popular app on the android market is now facing a regular spam message problem leading to false information to the whatsApp user. Whatspp user now days are getting these spam messages almost everyday. One of the famous spam messages created by some Chinese business cooperation asking user to confirm there whatsApp account by sending the same messages to all there whatsApp friend or else they will lose their whatsApp account was one of the most dangerous spam message which made the users in fear that they will not be able to continue the whatsApp service.
Mostly users were not aware of these messages and this made them forward these messages to their whatsApp friends.
The most common span messages shared by the viewer included the following message.
The most common span messages shared by the viewer included the following message.
”Hello, we are Andy & John, director of MSN and now also whatsApp, this message is to inform all of our users that we have only 530 accounts available for new phones, and that our servers have recently been very congested, so we asking for your help to solve this problem. We need our active users to forward this message to every single person in your contact list in order to confirm our active users that use WhatsApp, if you do not send this message to all your contacts to WhatsApp, then your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all your contacts.
This message was circulated in many of the countries including United States, United Kingdom, Africa, Indonesia, India, Kuwait and many more.
When you receive such a message please delete and inform your friends that it is actually a hoax ,make them feel stupid for sending it.
Know you know Cheeers
Courtesy http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29933261
