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In a post on the WhatsApp blog, the company has announced that digital payments for people and small businesses have just started. That is to say that  WhatsApp now has a new big feature, which is person-to-person payments. It’s just gone live in the past few hours, though only in one country right now: Brazil. Brazil for now is only the first step, obviously, and although no promises have been made of the feature making its way north to the U.S. or to other countries, it’s highly likely it will. This mirrors the way WhatsApp became so dominant in the first place - its multi-platform presence. Brilliant though the Messages app on iPhone is - and even though it’s probably about to see  a big upgrade announced by Apple in the coming days, its best experience is across Apple devices. Features such as invisible ink text, animated balloons and more are only visible on iPhone and iPad, for instance.

It is now official, Twitter has finally announced that it is  turning off its Twitter via SMS service for the majority of its global user base.  "You can no longer receive tweet notifications via SMS. Twitter is retiring the feature." On Monday twitter said via twitter support: "we want to continue to help keep your account safe. We’ve seen vulnerabilities with SMS, so we’ve turned off our Twitter via SMS service, except for a few countries. Everyone will still have access to important SMS messages needed to log in to and manage their accounts."

The giant instant messaging company WhatsApp is imposing additional restriction on how often a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to tackle the spread of misinformation.

Google  might finally be bringing its default messaging app on Android up to speed with Apple's iMessage.