{"id":9233,"date":"2017-09-14T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-messenger-hits-1-3-billion-monthly-users-up-from-1-2b-in-april.html"},"modified":"2017-09-14T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:09:21","slug":"facebook-messenger-hits-1-3-billion-monthly-users-up-from-1-2b-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-messenger-hits-1-3-billion-monthly-users-up-from-1-2b-in-april.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger hits 1.3 billion monthly users, up from 1.2B in April"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Facebook has finally revealed how its Snapchat Stories clones is doing, though it\u2019s not seeing the same explosive growth as Instagram or WhatApp\u2019s versions. Messenger Day now sees 70 million daily users posting and viewing photos and video slideshows. For comparison, Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status have 250 million daily users each while competitor Snapchat has 173 million dailies for its whole app.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Facebook Messenger as a whole continues its ascent, entrenching itself as the top cross-OS messaging app in the West. Messenger now <\/a>has 1.3 billion monthly users, up from 1.2 billion in April and 1 billion in July 2016. That\u2019s the same count as Facebook\u2019s other chat product, WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

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Messenger\u2019s growth rate has slowed slightly over the years. It took just six months to go from 800 million to 1 billion, and 9 more months to get 1.2 billlion, and 5 months to add the last 100 million. That could signal that Messenger is beginning to hit saturation in some core markets.<\/p>\n

Messenger\u2019s closest competitors that aren\u2019t owned by Facebook include China\u2019s WeChat with 938 million monthly users as of May, China\u2019s QQ with 861 million monthly users as of Q1 2017, and Snapchat with 173 million daily users as of Q2 2017 (though not all use it for messaging). Apple\u2019s iMessage has also reasserted itself, transforming from a lackluster SMS replacement to dynamic experiences including animations, an app platform, and in the upcoming iOS 11, Animoji you can control with your face using augmented reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Messenger has had a bit of a rocky year in terms of design. It rolled out an aggressive redesign that made the whole inbox just a layer on top of the Messenger Camera, with awkward round edges atop the rectangular screen. It later rolled back some of that styling, and moved to a tabbed inbox<\/a>\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n

The app\u2019s Snapchat Stories clone Messenger Day<\/a> launched in March to heavy criticism, with some saying the broadcast social media feature doesn\u2019t fit in the chat utility and stole screen space from the message threads<\/a>. \u00a0Some Facebook lovers may have shifted usage to Instagram\u2019s messaging feature Direct<\/a>. It\u2019s swelled to 375 million monthly users, and now offers both permanent and ephemeral messaging.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Facebook has struggled to make Messenger bots the ubiquitous utility it was hoping for. After a sloppy launch in 2016, Messenger has augmented bots with group chat capabilities, begun suggesting them through its AI assistant M, and built a bot discovery section into Messenger. Still, they haven\u2019t driven much buzz. And Facebook hasn\u2019t added any new voice features to Messenger despite that rabid adoration for products like Amazon Alexa and Google Home.<\/p>\n

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On the plus side, Messenger\u2019s video chat has proven popular. The feature hit 245 million monthly users as of December when Messenger added six-way split-screen group video chat<\/a> reminiscent of teen app Houseparty. Now Messenger is doubling down with integration into Facebook\u2019s full-fledged Houseparty clone called Bonfire <\/a>that was just spotted in the wild yesterday. Rather than force Bonfire to grow from scratch, Messenger\u2019s 1.3 billion users can instantly jump into the group video chats without downloading a separate app.<\/p>\n

Messenger has finally started to ratchet up monetization. Brands can pay to send Sponsored Messages<\/a> to people who\u2019ve already chatted with them, or buy display ads within the inbox<\/a> which rolled out in July.<\/p>\n

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If Messenger wants to keep growing, it must continue to copy the best features of its competitors while innovating where it has natural advantages through its ties to Facebook. While chat may be the center of the mobile experience, and all of mobile is adapting to the visual communication era<\/a>, Messenger can\u2019t let the bells and whistles obstruct the speedy utility at its core.<\/p>\n

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