Users of Whatsapp sending messages using different, unofficial clients are risking to be permanently banned from the online messaging service. The information comes from the German website Mobiflip which received several complaints from users.

A fair share of Whatsapp users send their messages with third-party apps like Whatsapp+ or WhatsappMD. These apps aren’t available on the Google Play Store but offer more features than the official Whatsapp-app. A feature for which many users install the apps is being able to see the “last seen” status from other users while the user’s status remains hidden.

Recently Whatsapp started to ban users using third-party Whatsapp-apps and it appears the company has now started to permanently block them. Affected users likely received a temporarily ban or warning before they were permanently blocked.

The permanent block means in practice that Whatsapp blacklists the banned phone number. Which also makes it impossible to activate and send messages using the official Whatsapp-app.

The third-party apps are also no longer developed. The developers ceased development after they received warnings from Facebook stating their apps violate the Whatsapp user terms.

Culled from http://www.myce.com/news/whatsapp-now-permanently-bans-users-using-third-party-apps-75246/

I guess this means it will affect of 9ja users cos many here use Whatsapp+ more than the official client.

**Edit**.
So this is what it feels like to make frontpage and 1st to comment at the same time. Mscheew.... Was expecting to see the heavens open and angels descending, singing hallelujah. Very anti-climatic

Dem no fit ban me lailai

they don't know, we buy SIM in Nigeria like no-man-business

@Pelboy, Don't be so sure o.

@Shadowgwalker, Hahaha. And will you keep buying sims as the block it simply to chat on whatsapp when you can easily move to telegram?

Okay o

Bye bye whatsapp+

Am now a born again Whatsapp convert

I love my number

Wow

Monopoly

Hope they don't ban my ranch customers

Noted

The funny thing is I had never heard of whatsapp+ or any of the other third party apps until i read this article. I like whatsapp as is.

Thumbs up

2go here I come... enough of whatsapp forming... when whatsapp turn NL we dhe give Pesin life time ban...

Ok

Them don dey spoil business for the bros...lol

we go crack am

no qualms am law abiding

Whatsapp ko whatsapp ni...i rep #2go

Gu4dem

To what purpose?, Their money dey loss?

This is the first and only time I'm hearing about third- party apps works on whatsapp. Is there any internet enable phone that doesn't support whatsapp? I don't really understand

good news


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Whatsapp plus Don turn Whatsapp minus

Whatsapp is grow and now selecting customers.

Ok

Ok we still dey