How Facebook Messenger clawed its way to 1 billion users

{rss:content:encoded} How Facebook Messenger clawed its way to 1 billion users http://ift.tt/29LTb2J http://ift.tt/2agv1Or July 20, 2016 at 05:00PM  Facebook’s gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in twenty months to reach the one billion user mark five years after its debut. Messenger joins Facebook, its acquisition WhatsApp, and Google’s YouTube in the billion user mobile user club. The app has racked up some other impressive stats. Each month… Read More