Viber introduced the community to a billion members, which can be monetized

2018-03-01 09:59

Viber introduced the community to a billion members, which can be monetized
Viber has launched a new feature — “community.” This chat space in which both can communicate and share content to 1 billion users.

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The company noted that this is a unique feature — in other messengers number of team members is typically limited to hundreds or thousands, reports Rus.Media.

Unlike chat rooms, communities, new members, by joining, you will immediately get access to a full history of the community. There are also community-displays only the user names, phone numbers and other personal information hidden from other participants.

Community administrators will have the ability to moderate and control the chat spaces. In addition, communities will be able to profit by developing them. While the company does not inform, what exactly is it and how will monetization.

Superadministrator communities fully control the activity of other users of the community can add new members, grant them admin or super admin to block users for inappropriate content, give permission for participation in discussions and the right to invite new members. To promote your community moderators will be able to make it public, triggering the possibility of switching the link, or at any time to disable this option.

Superadministrator will be able to appoint administrators to assist in the moderation of communities to delete one or all messages sent by a particular party, and with the right fixing of the discussion of the messages. Admins will be given the opportunity to develop a community, adding new members and, if necessary, to exclude users.

Beta-testers of the new features Viber became a French football club Olympique de Marseille, Minute Media company specializing in the creation and dissemination of sports content, and service of digital content, OverDrive.