{"id":4637,"date":"2017-08-22T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2017-08-22T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:47:53","slug":"whatsapp-adds-colours-status-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/whatsapp-adds-colours-status-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp adds colours to \u2018Status\u2019 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making its \u201cStatus\u201d feature more interesting, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out an update that lets its 250 million monthly users share creative text-based \u201cStatus\u201d updates.<!--more-->\u201cThe text-based status feature allows you to update your contacts in a fun and personal way. To customise text statuses, users can choose a specific font and background colour, or include links,\u201d WhatsApp said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature is available on iPhone and Android phones. Also, users can now view \u201cStatus\u201d updates on WhatsApp for the web.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also control who can see their \u201cStatus\u201d updates by choosing the option in WhatsApp\u2019s privacy settings.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also reply to an update of a friend by tapping the reply option. A message will be sent in a WhatsApp chat with a thumbnail of the \u201cStatus\u201d update.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making its \u201cStatus\u201d feature more interesting, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out an update that lets its 250 million monthly users share creative text-based \u201cStatus\u201d updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}