Our #FridaySocial is a weekly round-up of the key social media news stories from the previous seven days. Let us know your thoughts in the comments or via Twitter – @Umpf / @daniiyk
WhatsApp Push Payments
Facebook has chosen London as a key hub for the development of its new WhatsApp mobile payment feature, boosting the city’s hopes of becoming a global fintech hub and signalling the company’s commitment to monetising the growing platform.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1126150145568124932
Retweets Reformed
https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1125479155011805186
Coffee Catastrophe
https://twitter.com/BertShowBert/status/1125353933210378240
And finally…
Some WhatsApp users might have to soon look for an alternative chat app following an announcement that the popular social media platform will be withdrawing support for all smartphones running on Windows operating systems by the end of the year.
Access to the app has already been withdrawn for Nokia Symbian S60, Nokia Series 40 operating system, BlackBerry OS and Blackberry 10 – and in February 2020, will also prevent users on Android versions 2.3.7 and older or iOS 7 and older from using WhatsApp.
