Popular social media platform, WhatsApp is set to have yellow pages where users can look up and contact various local businesses around them.
This was made known by the CEO of the platform, Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp’s sister platform, Facebook.
According to Mark, the service was launched earlier today in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and hopefully, it will move to more places soon.
The post he made reads;
“We’re building a modern-day Yellow Pages into WhatsApp where you can look up and contact local businesses right inside the app. Launching in São Paulo today, and hopefully more places soon.”
Some reactions the post got are;
Hira Saeed – Sounds interesting! Guess yellow pages were doing the right thing years ago 😖😀
Harsh Joshi – Now that’s called an upgrade !! It is definitely going to boost businesses and make easy for there customers to find them win win situation for everyone !!
Igbokwe Christian – Superlatively awesome.. Sir please do well to come up with a mechanisms to curtail the high rate of hacking that has characterized Facebook in recent times..
Mohamed Saed El Amrosy – Bravo on you’re hard, one breath stays like you, please send me the application in Egypt🇪🇬💪🏾👍
Nana Kwabena Baffour Amoako-Adu II – I can’t wait for it to be in Ghana
Source: www.ghgossip.com
