Trick Your Whatsapp Friends With Bold, Italics and Strikethroughs Messages.

WhatsApp the most popular chatting service on planet earth right now, can let you add the new options of bold, italics and strikethrough to your WhatsApp message in its 2.12.17 version for iPhones and 2.12.535 version for Android handsets.

Here’s how it works:

1. For bold, add asterisks to either side of your text, e.g. *bold*

2. For italics, add underscores to either side of the specific word or words, e.g. _italics_

3. For strikethrough, add a tilde (~) to either side of the word or words, e.g. ~strikethrough~

It’s also possible to can surround a word with all three of the characters and have each of the formatting options apply to a word, such as _*bolditalics*_.

These new stylings can also be entered in the WhatsApp web client which launched last year  but the formatting will only show up in the app-based version of chats.

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What fancies us most as The African Post is that Whatsapp recently revealed plans to enable business accounts inside the WhatsApp platform, thereby allowing users to connect with companies with which they want to communicate via the service. While that hasn’t happened yet, it could become a reality very soon, maybe at Facebook’s upcoming F8 conference.

NB: The recipient  has to be on 2.12.17 version for iPhones and 2.12.535 version for Android on their handsets.