Facebook today said that more than 800 million people were using its Messenger app on a monthly basis at the end of 2015.
Since being released in August 2011, Facebook Messenger has achieved outstanding growth. For instance, the app had 700 million users in June 2015, 600 million last March, 500 million in November 2014 and 200 million in April of 2014.
According to Nielsen, Facebook Messenger was the fastest-growing app of the last year. Now, it seems like only a matter of time before it surpasses the 1 billion user mark, perhaps even doing so before its fifth birthday late this summer.
What's sobering—if you are a competitor such as Yahoo, AOL or Twitter—is that Facebook Messenger hasn't been monetized with advertising.
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