One Billion Users Now Use Messenger Every Month

Joyeaux celebration as Facebook Messenger soars to 1 billion users. It's attraction to people for interaction and businesses keeps rising to greater heights. Messenger can now easily join its parent company Facebook, its acquisition WhatsApp and Google’s YouTube in the billion user mobile user club. Facebook announced on its blog. 

"David Marcus and Mark Zuckerberg lead a cheer with the Messenger team, arranged to look like its logo."

Highlights of Messenger Impressive Stats 

• Each month, 17 billion photos are sent and 1 billion messages pass between people and businesses. 
• 380 million stickers and 22 million GIFs are sent each day and 10 percent of all VoIP calls go through Messenger. 
• Messenger’s new platform now has 18,000 bots, and 23,000 developers have signed up for Facebook’s Wit.ai Bot Engine.

This feat by Messenger could further attract brands and developers to Messenger’s platform to ditch other competitors or SMS platforms challenging Facebook. 

Indeed, Facebook depth of networking is filled with remarkable creamy goodies. Anyone can participate in the celebration by sending a balloon emoji  in any conversation and you will see the screen light up to beautiful the announcement. 

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