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You can now fit 256 people into a WhatsApp group chat

The maximum number of people you can have in a WhatsApp group chat has increased to 256, rather than 100 as it was before. It's not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number, but it'll be good news for those users for whom 100 just wasn't big enough.

Click to view the original at independent.co.uk

Hasnain says:

It used to say "It's not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number".

Did the journalist not think to ask a single tech person?

Posted on 2016-02-09T00:29:53+0000