WhatsApp will gain a function that resembles the old MSN

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WhatsApp will gain a function that resembles the old MSN

Remember when you showed which song you were listening to on MSN? The modern version of this habit – sharing songs, albums, podcasts on social networks – is about to reach WhatsApp. This is because Goal, owner of the application, tests sharing from Spotify in the status.

(Image: Yalcin Sonat and Denphotos – Shutterstock)

The new feature appears in Beta 2.25.8.3 from WhatsApp for Androididentified the site Hob. In practice, It will be the same process of sharing Spotify links on Stories do Instagram.

When sharing Spotify content (songs, albums, podcasts), the Users will see the additional option to post them on WhatsApp status. It will appear with the options you already know – publish as a story on Instagram, send as a message to a contact or group etc – in the streaming app.

Check out screen catches showing the Spotify link sharing in WhatsApp status:

Spotify link sharing in WhatsApp status (image: reproduction/wabetainfo)

For those who are already used to sharing and access Spotify links on Instagram Stories, it won’t change much. Both the process to share and the aesthetics of the resource must be the same.

So WhatsApp will have another space for you to share what has caught the attention of your ears on Spotify. Also, to keep up with what your contacts have heard on the streaming platform.

Instagram and Spotify rehearsed to launch something that would resemble MSN in 2024

This is not the first time Spotify and some target platform have tested something for content sharing. In August 2024, the image of an feature that would further resemble MSN circulated: Share on Instagram in real time what you are listening to on Spotify.

Meta and Spotify tested real -time sharing, MSN style, on Instagram in 2024 (image: Instagram, Spotify and Digital Look)

The image was a screen capture published by developer Alessandro Paluzzi on Threads. In the app, open on a mobile phone (iPhone, probably), a banner appears saying the following (in free translation): “Share from Spotify: share what you are listening to. You can stop sharing at any time.”

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