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LALIGA’s corporate channels continue growing on X and Telegram
Mumbai: LALIGA’s corporate channels continue to post strong growth since being set up in January earlier this year. Less than a year on from creation, the X (formerly known as Twitter) account has almost 160,000 followers, more than the corporate accounts of other leading sports institutions such as the NFL, NHL and MLS. The Telegram channel, meanwhile, has grown impressively to over 9,100 followers.
These LALIGA channels offer corporate and institutional content, showcasing the organisation’s reach beyond the football field. LALIGA institutional events, press conferences, announcements and even the competition are covered in full through a variety of formats including videos, photos and infographics.
The corporate nature of the content complements LALIGA’s other web and social media channels, which offer sports content relating to LALIGA competition and its clubs.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
