Facebook’s Messenger app passes 800 million users

And to support the aggressive growth pace stats from Facebook, research film Nielsen stated that Messenger’s impressive growth is the fastest among any application for the year 2015. One such company is Uber, which, just recently, became part of Messenger where the two will work together to see to it that users of Facebook can request for a cab from within the app. Better still, the new deal will see users track drivers of cabs as well as make payments directly from the app. This Chat SDK will allow them to seamlessly build an army of bots in the Messenger app and these bots will be responsible for carrying out a multitude of tasks. Since Facebook has now kept this venture private, we will wait for future updates to come through and wait for the company to make this epic announcement. Also, features like video calling, customised conversations and Businesses on Messenger were introduced to expand the coverage of the messaging app that Facebook had initially created to rival Google’s Hangouts.

And when I said I wanted to communicate with people, not numbers, and not worry about what device they were using, that’s exactly what Facebook is delivering across mobile and web platforms.

Facebook Messenger is undoubtedly getting bigger with the new features and tweaks.

It might sound like Facebook is unwisely encouraging competition to Messenger, its own text-based virtual assistant, but the company has ongoing plans to turn its chat app into a platform for other brands and businesses, the Verge reported on Wednesday. Try 800 million monthly active users and counting.

Facebook has begun testing a “digital assistant” operating through Messenger that enables people to make restaurant reservations and airline bookings.

Marcus’ post offers a window into what Facebook is planning to do with Messenger over the next 12 months.

“You can expect us to keep trying new things, too”, Marcus said. The test of enhancing Messenger with artificial intelligence is “going well”, according to Marcus.

Long story short, Facebook may well have three separate apps with north of 1 billion monthly users by the end of 2016.