The monthly active audience of the Facebook Messenger messaging service has reached 1.2 billion,” said the head of the project, David Marcus.
In May 2015, the monthly audience of the service was two times less – 600 million. In July 2016 – 1 billion .
The specified audience is potential users of the Instant Games gaming platform integrated into Messenger in November last year. The games launched on it gain about 1 million users per week.
Facebook Messenger itself was released for mobile systems in August 2011. Since July 2014, users of mobile Facebook can only exchange messages through it.
Source: TechCrunch