Ten years of Facebook Messenger | Growth coming from video calls, Instagram, says messaging product director Sateesh Kumar Srinivasan
The Hindu
Messenger’s Director of Messaging Product Sateesh Kumar Srinivasan shares insights into the app’s journey over the last 10 years and what users can now look forward to
The month of August marked 10 years since Facebook’s Messenger was launched. The messaging service started out as a feature integrated into Facebook’s app, but was transformed into a standalone app for iOS and Android in 2011.
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The Facebook-owned social network now hosts over a billion users, with the number of group video and audio calls doubling over the past year, and call duration growing 150%. Over time, Messenger has introduced to integrate with other apps in the Facebook family, including and .