Windows Messenger Powers Billions Of Facebook Chat Minutes

Windows Messenger is rolling out theFacebook-enabled chat feature to more countries worldwide, making the function available to more than 75 million additional users around the globe.

Windows Messenger is rolling out theFacebook-enabled chat feature to more countries world wide, making the function available to more than 75 million additional users around the globe.

Microsoft is hoping that this new scope will help grow their Facebook-to-Windows chatting numbers, which are growing rapidly. The Seattle-area company’s blog claims that almost 18 million people have together done more than 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat on Messenger. Nowhere does the creator of the post clarify whether that figure is a cumulative number.

Regardless of whether that’s cumulative, yearly or monthly, that’s a lot of chatting — especially considering in November they gave an update saying Messenger provided more than 1.5

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