Whatsapp might be looking to extend its reach beyond mobile. The Facebook-owned company could be working on a web client for its phone-based messaging platform. The suggestion is supported by a string of code discovered in version 2.11.471 of the app with mentions of “WhatsApp Web” and computers logging in and out of the client. The code also shows the latest tracking activity in web sessions.
Another piece of evidence surfaced when Pavel Durov, founder of rival messaging app Telegram, told TechCrunch that WhatsApp tried to poach one of its web developers, giving rise to speculations that WhatsApp could be working on a messaging client for the web.
Then to cap it all off, AndroidWorld.nl reporters further dug into its investigation and found out that WhatsApp has a domain dedicated for a web client.
“We still were curious about what the site was going to be and we have assumed some further research,” writes AndroidWorld.nl. “The first guess was an instant hit; the website http://web.whatsapp.com appeared to exist but is protected and can only be signed by a Google account.”
However, the December 11 update of the Whatsapp app removed any mention of web support. But what do you think? Will you like to use Whatsapp on your computer?
