Facebook reveals 500 million people are now using Messenger each month

Just a few months after the start of the great unbundling, which saw Facebook split Messenger off from the main app, the social networking giant has revealed that half-a-billion people are now using the standalone Messenger mobile app each month. The move hasn’t been the most popular from Facebook in recent times, with many questioning why they need a separate app to use a feature that was already available in the main app, Facebook has always stressed they had good reason. In a Q&A last week, Zuckerberg addressed this question directly, saying: “The first thing I want to do is...



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