Facebook chat now open for everyone

Two and a half weeks after Facebook Chat launched in beta to some US college users, as of early this morning Chat is now available for all Facebook users. Facebook has been slowly rolling out the launch since April 6 – users in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston got access in recent days.

Scaling chat infrastructure is an extremely challenging technical problem. We haven’t received any reports of downtime for the service – a big achievement by the Facebook ops team.

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