Times Insider | Sharing News on WhatsApp, an International Desk Experiment

WhatsApp Web. Today, for the first time, millions of you will have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser. Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages 

WhatsApp is a messaging service owned by Facebook, typically used to chat with one's family and friends via a smartphone. This was very different. As part of The Times's experiment, users received photographs taken by Jim and links to his coverage of

WhatsApp now has 800 million monthly active users, continuing a pace of growth that may put the mobile messaging app on track to hit one billion users later this year.

Above: WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton (second from left) appearing on stage at F8 with Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker (left), Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, and David Marcus, head of Facebook's Messenger.

WhatsApp, the incredibly popular messaging service, has just received a spate of updates that make using the service – and especially the newly implemented voice calls feature – better than ever. At the moment these updates are for Android devices only