Facebook Messenger Reaches 900 Million Users, Adds Business-Centric Features

Facebook announced a user milestone for its Messenger application, as well as a host of new features, mostly aimed at businesses.

Facebook announced a user milestone for its Messenger application, as well as a host of new features, mostly aimed at businesses.

Vice president of messaging products David Marcus said in a post Thursday morning that Messenger now has more than 900 million monthly active users, and that more than 1 billion messages are sent each month between Messenger users and businesses or pages.

Messenger reached the 500 million MAU milestone in November 2014, and the app topped the 700 million mark in June 2015 and the 800 million mark in January.

As for the new features, Marcus said Facebook is beginning the rollout of:

  • User names for both users and businesses, enabling other users to connect via a simple URL: m.me/yourusername.
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