Washington D.C. [USA], April 27 (ANI): Weeks after introducing restrictions on forwarding messages, instant messaging service WhatsApp on Monday said that there has been a drop in the spread of highly forwarded messages on the platform by 70 percent globally.According to TechCrunch, the Facebook-owned service had introduced a restriction earlier this month which allowed users to forward a message to only one user or group at a time.The previous limit of forwarding messages on WhatsApp was of five users or groups. The restriction was rolled out on April 7 for the 2 billion worldwide users. (ANI)

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