Facebook Messenger Hits 1 Billion Users, Growing Faster Than Facebook Itself

Facebook Messenger is currently utilized by 1 billion individuals every month, taking after a torrid time of development that saw it include 100 million dynamic clients like clockwork since the begin of the year. The application guaranteed 800 million dynamic clients in January and 900 million in April. Presently, it's achieved a cool billion.

The turning point declaration was a decent time to check in with Messenger head David Marcus, who addressed a couple inquiries regarding the independent application.

Which is developing quicker: Messenger or Facebook?

While Facebook has a greater number of clients than Messenger, Marcus said the application is becoming quicker than its parent. In any case, can Messenger overwhelm the "Blue application" as it's called? The detail to track is the thing that rate of individuals utilizing Messenger don't yet have Facebook. "That is not even a number I know at this moment," Marcus said. "Be that as it may, Messenger [registration] is developing, and I think beginning one year from now it's certainly going to be one of our essential vectors of development."

Do Messenger bots consider Messenger clients?

Inquired as to whether the a large number of bots now on Messenger calculated into 1 billion-client point of reference, Marcus said they didn't. "Bots don't consider clients," he clarified. It's most likely just a short time until they request their rights.
=
Is Facebook considering a Messenger bot registry?

It can once in a while be hard to discover visit bots on Messenger. Since Facebook has amassed a decent number of bots, it's chipping away at making them less demanding to find. "In the principal month of opening the stage, we were centered around working with accomplices to get their bot encounters to a better than average place," Marcus said. "We needed thickness of bots … we're getting to this point."

What happened to Facebook's "M" AI collaborator?

Despite the fact that you haven't heard much about it recently, Facebook hasn't abandoned M, its fake intelligence–powered virtual colleague. Marcus said the first "at scale" recipients of M's innovation are outside engineers utilizing its AI to makes their own talk bots more intelligent. "It's self-strengthening," Marcus said. "When it learns in different conditions, it improves M also."