Facebook Messenger Hits 1B Monthly Active Users, Accounts For 10 Percent Of All VoIP Calls (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:25AM from the facebook-world dept.

Speaking of instant messaging and VoIP call apps, Facebook announced on Wednesday that Facebook Messenger has hit the 1 billion monthly active users milestone. The company adds that Messenger is just more than a text messenger -- in addition to the ambitious bot gamble, a digital assistant, and the ability to send money to friends -- Messenger now accounts for 10 percent of all VoIP calls made globally. Messenger's tremendous growth also underscores Facebook's mammoth capture of the world. The social network is used by more than 1.6 billion people actively every month. WhatsApp, the chat client it owns, is also used by more than one billion people.

TechCrunch has a brilliant story on the growth of Messenger from the scratch.

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Re:Dumb F*cks by thegarbz · 2016-07-20 05:07 · Score: 1, Informative

Yeah what idiots using a messaging platform with voip, video chat, file sharing, all rolled into one that doesn't blow anywhere near as many goats as most of the alternatives. What where those 1billion people thinking!