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Facebook Messenger Day hits 70M daily users as the app reaches 1.3B monthlies

Facebook has finally revealed how its Snapchat Stories clone is doing, though it's not seeing the same explosive growth as Instagram or WhatApp's versions. Messenger Day now sees 70 million daily user

Facebook Messenger hits 1.2 billion monthly users, up from 1B in July

Normally adding 200 million users in 8 months to a product that already has a billion would reduce the average engagement, but most apps don’t have Facebook Messenger’s network effect. Now

Stories are the new News Feed

If the camera is the new keyboard, then the future of social media will look more like a slideshow than a Word document. So while Snapchat invented Stories, we'll have to get used to using them everyw

The argument for and against Facebook Messenger Day

The stakes are high as Facebook gambles its messaging user base on a bet to beat Snapchat at its own game. Some are downright pissed that Facebook would “ruin” Messenger by forcing messy social me

Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day

Completing almost 8 years at Facebook, Director of Product Management Peter Martinazzi has left the company. His last product, Messenger Day, shipped on Thursday. He worked with the growth team in som

How Facebook Messenger evolved into a chat camera

A picture is worth a thousand words... that no one wants to type on a tiny screen. And even if you did mash in all that text, it'd still lose the subtleties of sarcasm or sincerity. To express the ful

Facebook “Messenger Day” is the chat app’s new Snapchat Stories clone

Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn’t popular yet. Today in Poland it launched “Messenger Day”, which lets people share illustrated filt