In the ever-evolving world of instant messaging apps, WhatsApp has long been considered a pioneer, dominating the market with its user-friendly interface and widespread popularity since its launch in November 2009. However, in recent years, the rise of Telegram has posed a significant challenge to WhatsApp’s dominance.
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram’s extensive feature set, robust security measures, and focus on user privacy have been seen to attract a growing number of users. And, as a response, WhatsApp has been actively striving to keep pace with Telegram, gradually incorporating similar features while staying true to its core strengths.
On Monday, May 22, 2023, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via his official Facebook handle that the instant messaging app has been upgraded to support the ability to edit sent messages, coming as the latest features updates to the app. While the feature may be new to WhatsApp, Telegram, on the other hand, has had the feature as far back as 2016 —corroborating speculations that WhatsApp is, indeed, playing a catch-up with Telegram as it has been observed with numerous features that WhatsApp had have to incorporate trailing Telegram.
