Facebook: About 1.2 billion users actively use Messenger to stay in touch

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Over 1.2 billion people use Facebook Messenger every month globally to stay in touch with the people and businesses that matter to them the most. In the last few months, Facebook has added group video calling, a powerful and fast camera – preloaded with stickers, masks, frames, effects and the ability to share photos and videos to your Day, making it easy and fun to share what’s happening in your life, moment by moment.

“I keep on hearing powerful stories about how our product is becoming a more important part of your daily lives. So from all of us here at Messenger, a heartfelt thank you to all of you for giving us a chance to build something good and more meaningful for you,” said David Marcus, Vice President, Messaging Products, Facebook, in a post on Wednesday.

The company has also launched Mentions and Reactions to make group conversations on Messenger fun and engaging. Last month, Facebook Messenger added a new feature Live Location that lets you share – for an hour within a private direct or group message thread – your real-time location on a map.

Publish date: April 14, 2017 11:07 am| Modified date: April 14, 2017 11:07 am

Instagram adds christmas stickers, candy brush and “hands-free” video

  21 Dec 2016 , 17:10

Instagram has rolled out two more features that allows users to add stickers to posts and capture videos “hands-free”. According to a report in the Next Web on Tuesday, users can now add stickers to videos and photo stories through a sticker button that shows up next to the drawingTOOL.

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The feature includes specific stickers for the weather, current time and location and there are a bunch of holiday stickers like Christmas, Hannukah and all. Instagram has also added a “hands-free” for video recording. Now the users do not have to hold down the video button to record a video anymore.

“Just tap once to start, and tap again to finish — like your regularCAMERA app already does,” the report noted. With the new addition, users can also add more text to their photos and videos by tapping the text button to keep on adding more instances.

With the help of a slider that appears in the Instagram, users can adjust the text size too, including automatic text wrap so that it is not chopped off the sides of screen. iOS users can also save their entire story from the past 24 hours as a single video. The features are available on the latest versions of Instagram (10.3) for iOS and Android.

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