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Tag: Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger Set to Battle Against Coronavirus
23Mar By AdityaNo Comments
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Facebook Messenger Set to Battle Against Coronavirus

Facebook began enlisting outside developers to create ways its Messenger service can help health organizations battling the novel coronavirus. The social network also invited software savants to take part in an online "hackathon" aimed at creating ways to use Messenger to ease social-distancing and deliver accurate information about the pandemic, according to Messenger vice president Stan Chudnovsky in a blog post. He unveiled a global program intended to connect government health organizations and UN agencies with developers who can create ways to use Messenger share accurate information and speed up responses to people's questions. Software makers, for example, could help agencies automate answering common questions, to allow staff to tackle more challenging tasks. Developers c...
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Facebook Redesigns and Simplifies its Messenger App
24Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Facebook Redesigns and Simplifies its Messenger App

Social media giant Facebook has repaired its messaging app called Messenger in an effort to simplify the service. The company claims to have 1.3 billion monthly global users. The Messenger began rolling out a redesigned version featuring three tabs instead of nine. The platform stated that it was "going back to its roots" seven years after the standalone app's launch. "We build one feature after another; they're piling up," Messenger chief Stan Chudnovsky said. The app has grown from a simple messaging app to one that lets users make video calls, send money and more. The updated and fresh tabs enable users to navigate between their conversations under "Chats," stories and contacts at "People," and "Discovery," which is devoted to games and exchanges with businesses. Messenger is pa...
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After Instagram, Facebook Messenger Eyeing to Launch the Unsend Feature
15Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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After Instagram, Facebook Messenger Eyeing to Launch the Unsend Feature

After Instagram, social networking platform Facebook is prepping up to bring in the feature of ‘unsend’ on its messaging app Facebook Messenger. And thus, soon the feature may be nearing a release. Initially, Facebook announced that it would be adding the "unsend" feature for everyone in April after it came out that messages CEO Mark Zuckerberg had sent to other users were removed from the users' inboxes while older messages that those users sent Zuckerberg were still present. The feature of deleting messages on the messenger was available since long, however, deleting those messages would not delete the message from the recipient's inbox. Photo sharing app Instagram that is owned by Facebook already has the "unsend" feature that removes the message from both inboxes, even messages f...
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Messenger Lite Rolled Out for iOS, Available only in Turkey
11Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Messenger Lite Rolled Out for iOS, Available only in Turkey

With all the mobile applications launching the lighter version of their apps, Facebook also came up with with the Messenger Lite app in October 2016, but it was available only for Android users back then. After two years of its existence, the lite app is being now rolled out on for iOS users as well, however, it will only be available in Turkey for now. The Messenger Lite app, like all the other lite apps, is small in size, uses less data, and works even in spotty connectivity. The Facebook messenger’s lite app is only 10MB in size whereas the normal Messenger app is huge around 140MB in size on the App Store. In comparison, the Facebook Lite app for iOS is about 16.3MB in size. The company is planning to roll out the app on iOS in other countries as well but it may take some time. T...
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Facebook Now Lets Kids Add Friends on Messenger Kids
17Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Facebook Now Lets Kids Add Friends on Messenger Kids

One of the largest social media platforms Facebook has introduced a new feature to its Messenger Kids app which is the under-13 chat application that makes it easier for the children to add their friends on the platform. Under this feature, the connection requests will be sent directly to the parents, who have to accept every contact before they can connect and interact with their kids through the platform. "Parents have to turn on a setting that creates a four-word passphrase that is used to generate these contact requests," stated a report. "Both parents will receive a contact request from their child and both have to approve the request before the kids can begin chatting.” The newly launched feature will enable the kids between the ages of 6 and 13 to exchange photographs, videos a...
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Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users
13Apr By PriyankaNo Comments
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Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users

Facebook's Messenger today said it has crossed 1.2 billion monthly active users milestone with the addition of about 200 million new users in last eight months. "We now have over 1.2 billion people actively using Messenger every month," Facebook Head of Messenger David Marcus said in a post on the social networking platform. In July last year, Facebook had said it had 1 billion users of Messenger, its messaging service on the social networking platform. Facebook has seen similar traction for its other products as well with India being a key consumer. WhatsApp, its mobile messaging app, has over one billion users of which about 200 million are from India. Its photo-sharing app Instagram has about 600 million users globally. Reports suggest Facebook's flagship app has 1.74 billion m...
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