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WhatsApp rolls out an unsend message feature

WhatsApp have rolled out a ‘delete for everyone’ feature that allows you to unsend messages if they were sent no more than 7 minutes before.

I’m sure that all of us have sent a message before on WhatsApp that we’ve wanted to take back, whether its been sent to the wrong person, has spelling mistakes or incorrect information – with the new delete for everyone feature, you now have 7 minutes to redeem yourself and delete the message for you and the recipients, providing you all have the latest update.

WhatsApp released this explanation on their FAQ page:

‘Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat. This is particularly useful if you sent a message to the wrong chat or if the message you sent contains a mistake.

Messages you successfully delete for everyone will be replaced with “This message was deleted” in your recipients’ chats. Similarly, if you see “This message was deleted” in a chat, it means that the sender deleted their message for everyone.

You can only delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending. Once seven minutes have passed, there is no way to delete messages for everyone. To delete messages for everyone:’

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5 Reasons to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS

1) The most important reason to secure you website with SSL.

As of the 27th October, Google will label EVERY site without a SLL Certificate as insecure, decreasing your rankings, your integrity and authenticity and, therefore, in turn, affecting your website hits and sales as ‘not secure’ warnings will kill conversions.

2) You need to have a SSL Certificate even if you’re not selling online.

A common myth is that only e-commerce sites need to be encrypted, this isn’t true, all websites should be migrated to HTTPS, especially if you have any form on your website that requires visitors to enter their information. The purpose of SSL is to keep sensitive information sent across the Internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can make use of it.

3) Its a positive Google ranking factor.

‘Over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We’ve seen positive results, so we’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal.’ Google itself wrote an article stating that it would be ranking websites higher if they were encrypted with an SSL Certificate. You can read that article here.

4) SSL Certificates provide integrity and authenticity.

5) Your competition has it.

If your competition has a secure HTTPS website, its even worse that you don’t. And if they don’t, it’s important that you do to be ahead of the game.