Burn the Copycat, Twitter's newsletter acquisition, South Africa's crypto crackdown

This post is a delayed version of Techpoint Digest, a week-daily newsletter that rounds up major happenings in African tech. You can start receiving it hours before everyone else if you subscribe now Today we are discussing: Twitter acquires newsletter startup, Revue WhatsApp clone, GBWhatsApp Twitter trend South Africa set to regulate cryptocurrency Clubhouse is coming to Android Outrage against GBWhatsApp, WhatsApp copycat users Photo by AARN GIRI on Unsplash Yesterday, GBWhatsApp trended on TwitterNG. Before talking about the ‘why?’, let’s do something for the uninitiated. I learnt about GBWhatsApp three years ago; the number of ‘attractive’ features on the app enticed me. ‘Status’ was new to WhatsApp, and downloading them from other users is not allowed. But GBWhatsApp permits that — the bait. And that’s only one of the many ways GBWhatsApp contravenes everything Facebook’s WhatsApp prohibits. GBWhatsApp is arguably the most popular of several WhatsApp’s clone apps available on the Internet — there is FMWhatsApp, WhatsApp Indigo, YOWhatsApp, among others. These apps give users the allowance to break certain WhatsApp restrictions. One of these is the anti-delete feature — when a user deletes a chat or media,  » Read More