Facebook Messenger Usage Is Soaring

according to Digital currency interchange startup Coinbase has reported the appointment of a Facebook executive to its board of directors. In joining the board, David Marcus, vice president of messaging products at Facebook, going to bring years of trial in building large-scale mobile products, according to a Coinbase statement posted yesterday. Previously president of on-line payment giant PayPal, Marcus told that he has been "fascinated with cryptocurrencies since 2012," and that the tech "has the possibility to materially change the lives of people around the world." He joined Paypal after his own mobile payment startup Zong was purchased up with eBay for almost a quarter of a bn dollars in 2011. Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, that has an ownership stake in Coinbase.

Facebook Messenger doubles number of vidimus chats to 17 bn in 2017

If you need a statistic on the tremendous reach and widening scope of Facebook Messenger, here's a fairly impressive one: the chat application logged a total of 17 bn vidimus calls in 2017. Facebook released group vidimus chat in Messenger final December, more positioning the application as a direct alternative to Skype and whatsapp apps (which Facebook owns). Personally, I've only used Messenger's vidimus chat with accident; few phone fumbles are as confusing as unintentionally calling someone in Messenger. Other Messenger stats as 2017 wraps up:Users sent over 500 bn emoji and 18 bn GIFs. It doesn't do vidimus chat, though; you'll Must settle for voice calls.

Facebook Messenger Usage Is Soaring

as informed in A handful of impressive usage statsThere were over 17 bn vidimus chats made on Messenger this year, doubling the number of vidimus chats that were made in 2016 on Messenger. Group messaging is too an increasingly common feature, with 2.5 mn new group chats started daily throughout the year. Beyond Messenger, Facebook is too looking to highlight photo/video messaging in Instagram with potentially unbundling Instagram messages into a new application called Direct. Messenger's growing usage and continued momentum going to pave how for inevitable monetization, that Facebook is starting to work on. It all starts with growing usage and engagement -- the money comes later -- and Facebook Messenger is crushing it on that front.

Facebook introduces new augmented fact impact for Messenger

Facebook this day reported a new suite of augmented fact equipment for Messenger the firm is calling "world effects," that basically allow users down real-time three-dimensional objects into photos or videos within the cam frame. Snapchat released a version of this output back in April, calling it world lenses. Facebook is at a disadvantage in this respect. It's Mysterious whether Facebook could do that with its current determine of tools, or if competitors could simply save pace with the company's AR advancements to protect it from taking over. So while world impact and other neat AR tricks may look innocuous on the surface, they do actually represent the following mobile battleground.

collected by :Roy Mark