{"id":23418,"date":"2016-07-21T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2016-07-21T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:49:35","slug":"facebook-says-1-billion-people-now-use-messenger-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/07\/21\/facebook-says-1-billion-people-now-use-messenger-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"1 billion people now use Messenger every month, says Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One billion people now use Facebook\u2019s Messenger every month, according to the social media giant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re grateful for all the people who have sent the many millions and millions of messages with\u00a0Messenger\u00a0over the years, no matter if they are heartfelt, funny, hopeful for the future or planning the every day. We hope to send 1 billion thank yous in the form of a new floating balloon feature that everyone can use to celebrate. Just send a balloon emoji to your friends to add some whimsy and delight to any conversation,\u201d says Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook, Messenger\u00a0is the second most popular iOS app of all time, behind Facebook. More than one billion messages are sent between people and businesses each month. This number has more than doubled in the past year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Messenger-by-the-Numbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Messenger-by-the-Numbers-761x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Messenger by the Numbers\" width=\"640\" height=\"861\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Messenger-by-the-Numbers-761x1024.jpg 761w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Messenger-by-the-Numbers-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Messenger-by-the-Numbers-768x1033.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the the\u00a0Messenger\u00a0platform opened, over 18,000 bots have launched on\u00a0Messenger\u00a0and over 23,000 developers have signed up for Wit.ai&#8217;s Bot Engine. Ten percent of all VoIP calls globally are made through\u00a0Messenger<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also shared that people send more than 17 billion photos to friends through\u00a0Messenger\u00a0every month. On average, more than 22 million GIFs are sent every day via\u00a0Messenger. That&#8217;s 254 GIF&#8217;s per second. There are more than 250 sticker packs available in\u00a0Messenger\u00a0with more than 4,000 stickers. More than 380 million stickers are sent every day.<\/p>\n<p>Messenger\u00a0has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on Android. Also, people on\u00a0Messenger\u00a0have played 1.2 billion games of basketball<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of this journey to one billion, we focused on creating the best possible experiences in modern day communications. We remain focused on helping connect people to the people and businesses who matter most. Thank you to everyone who uses\u00a0Messenger\u00a0around the world, and we&#8217;re looking forward to connecting the next billion,\u201d said David Marcus, VP,\u00a0Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One billion people now use Facebook\u2019s Messenger every month, according to the social media giant. \u201cWe&#8217;re grateful for all the people who have sent the many millions and millions of messages with\u00a0Messenger\u00a0over the years, no matter if they are heartfelt, funny, hopeful for the future or planning the every day. We hope to send 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,9,19],"tags":[441,2205,4395,2174,508],"class_list":["post-23418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-ios","category-apps","category-headlines","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-messaging","tag-messenger","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}