Facebook Messenger userbase now at 500 million-per-month mark

Facebook, which has over 1.3 billion users globally, now has about 500 million people using the messenger service every month. The US-based firm had originally started the messenger service as a chat feature on the website but later rolled it out as a standalone mobile app. ‘Messaging is an important part of how people stay connected and since Messenger launch in 2011, we’ve been passionate about giving people a faster and more expressive way to communicate,’ Facebook Director of Product Management Peter Martinazzi said in a blog post.