Facebook launched its Watch Party feature earlier this year, which lets people in a Facebook Group watch videos in sync, commenting and reacting together. According to some new code added to Messenger, spotted by developer Ananay Arora, the company may be expanding a similar sort of feature to Messenger chats, via TechCrunch.
Based on the spotted code snippets, it seems like the “Watch Videos Together” feature would work a lot like Watch Party: drop a video in Messenger, and you’ll be able to ping the person (or group of people) in your Messenger thread so you can watch it at the same time. Presumably, Facebook is planning to support this feature for videos that are hosted on…
Written by Chaim Gartenberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/16/18098474/facebook-messenger-watch-videos-together-feature-test under the title “Facebook Messenger reportedly testing a Watch Videos Together feature”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
