As the weeks have passed, most of the video calling applications have been updated adding new functionalities to try to recover all the users who went to other platforms (Zoom and Skype mainly) due to the limitations they offered, limitations in terms of number of participants. If we talk about video calling applications we have to talk about Facebook Messenger.
This platform allows us to make video calls with up to 50 participants, without them having the obligation to have a Facebook account or register on the platform, since the operation is through a link where we only have to write our name. But in addition, it also allows us broadcast video calls live via Facebook.
Facebook has just added a new functionality to its messaging platform, a new functionality that allows, only to the creator of the room, broadcast the video call live through a Facebook account. Of course, users will have to give the go-ahead, through a message, so that their image is broadcast along with that of the rest. If you do not accept it, your live image will not be shown in the group broadcast.
This function, according to Facebook, is ideal for live interviews, online classes, book club events ... the user's imagination is the limit. This is one more step towards the integration that Facebook is making of its entire ecosystem.
Remember that video calls of up to 50 people through WhatsApp is available via Messenger, not through the application itself, whose maximum limit of participants is 8. According to Mark Zuckerberg's company, this option has become available in some countries and in the coming weeks its availability will be expanded both through the mobile application and through the desktop version that it launched a couple of months ago.
