Facebook has now another application with more than half a billion active users monthly. Facebook announced on Monday that the application of SAE Messenger has more than 500 million monthly active users.
By comparison, Facebook has more than 1 billion active users on mobile devices. WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook this year, has more than 600 million users, and Instagram has more than 200 million users.
In August, Facebook forced users to download the application Messenger in order to continue to communicate with their friends. This change helped Facebook Messenger-in to become one of the most popular applications on iOS devices, although many users complained that Facebook was forced to download the application.
"We are trying to create a service that is good for everyone. Application Messenger is faster and more focused on the messages, if you use it, you answer messages quickly, "said the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Question & Answer session that took place last Thursday. "We will do more than that in the future," he promised.
