Facebook has announce that its Messenger Application, now has one billion monthly users globally, making it the only platform that connects friends, families and loved ones around the world
The feat is coming at a time, when Facebook had installed a new feature, aimed at securing conversations between friends, families and loved ones.
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Facebook, while making known its giant stride, said that studies showed that, apart from achieving this feat of one billion users monthly, “Messenger is the second most popular IOS application of all times, behind Facebook”.
In a statement released by its Press and Public Relations, Red Media Africa, “More than one billion messages were sent between people and businesses each month, and the number has more than doubled in the past year”.
Red Media Africa, is a Lagos based Public Relations, PR, and Empowerment Marketing Company, which focuses on using inspiration, empowerment and action to help brands and organisations connect with audience.
According to Facebook Vice President, David Marcus, “As part of this journey to one billion, we focused on creating the best possible experiences in modern day communications.
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“We remain focused on helping connect people to the people and businesses who matter most,” Marcus said.
He further disclosed, that studies also showed that people send more than 17 billion photos to friends through Messenger every month.
Adding that, on the average, more than 22 million Graphic Interchange Formats, GIFs, are sent every day via Messenger, “that is 254 GIFs per second”.
“There are more than 250 sticker packs available in messenger, with more than 4,000 stickers.
“Messenger has been downloaded more than one billion times on Android, and people on Messenger have played 1.2 billion games of basketball,” Marcus added.
Facebook was established in 2004, to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
Presently, it has over 1.04 billion daily active users on average worldwide, and 7.2 million daily visitors from Nigeria.
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