Facebook has reach yet another milestone! The
company has now over 1 billion Messaging users passing 500 million monthly
active users of Messenger and 600 million active users of WhatsApp.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that “products don’t really get that interesting
to turn into businesses until they have about a 1 billion people using them.”
For now WhatsApp and Messenger remain independent,
and we don’t know what kind of an overlap the two have in common users. What
we’re marking is that in aggregate Facebook can count over one 1 billion active
users across both.*
This news represents huge growth for
Messenger, which only had 200 million users last April 2014, and it was
announced at the same time that it passed 1 billion monthly active users
on mobile. “Today more than 500 million people are using Messenger each month
and we’re more committed than ever to make it the best possible messaging
experience,” the company noted today in a blog post.
The company is issuing updates to Messenger once
every two weeks, and that will not slow down, the company says.
“There is still a lot for us to do and we’re
looking forward to bringing more innovation and updates to you in the coming
months,” David Marcus, who runs Facebook’s messaging products, noted
in in his own Facebook post.
On the earnings call last month,
Zuckerberg did not shy away from payments questions himself. Asked about
payments in Messenger, he said it would be something Facebook would do in
partnership with others, rather than on its own:
“Payments is an
important part of the online business ecosystem, but we’ve traditionally
thought about this as something that we’re going to partner with other
companies on to enable great solutions, rather than trying to compete and do it
as a business ourselves. And the reason why we’ve taken this approach is it’s
very important for all online businesses and our customers and partners that
there is a good online payment system. People run ads to get customers and sell
products and at the end of that conversion, if there is a good payment system
that is smooth, then people will buy more things, which ultimately makes the
ads and all of whole online flow more valuable for those partners and therefore
more revenue and profit for our business as well.”
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