09 April 2016

Facebook Messenger reaches 900 million users

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In early January, Facebook Messenger came to 800 million active users. Three months later this figure has risen to 900 million . In just three months, the messaging application of social network has managed to obtain the approval of 100 million people, some only comparable to WhatsApp, his elder brother to call in some way, that while figures exceeded the 1000 million users . Precisely his older brother has released this week end to end encryption so that today the talks remain with this social network can not be intercepted.

To celebrate exceeded 900 million Facebook Messenger guys just added three new features to its messaging application, to try to continue to encourage the use of this application as an alternative to WhatsApp. The three new functions are: Codes Messenger, Username and links Messenger .

The main reason for adding these new features is intended for users to contact each other and with companies . Facebook reported a few months ago, the messaging application will soon be used as a platform for communication between users and businesses.

Below we detail the new features of Facebook Messenger :

· Messenger codes allow us to share a much simpler user profiles so when we want to create a new contact. This kind of card displays a code that have to scan with our camera from the app to create the new contact.

· User names that we avoid the need to give our phone number or our Facebook profile to create a new contact.

· Links Messenger is the way we offer Facebook to publicly share our profile with other users.

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