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YouTube users can now chat with one another on new native sharing messaging feature

Speed News Desk | Updated on: 10 February 2017, 1:49 IST

Popular video-sharing platform YouTube has unveiled a 'native-sharing' chat feature through which users can converse with others via text, photos, and links while using the YouTube mobile app.

The California-based company has unveiled the new feature in a bid to increase the amount of videos shared by users within the app itself.

Users can share a video with friends and chat about it directly with this new feature in the app, Verge reports.

YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US $1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, and comment on videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video.

-With agency inputs

First published: 12 May 2016, 1:13 IST