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2. Messenger (software) - Wikipedia

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   Messenger, also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, released standalone iOS and Android apps in 2011, and released standalone Facebook Portal hardware for ...

3. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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   A classic example of instant messaging on a desktop computer: the left window of this software showing a list of contacts ("buddy list") and the right window an active IM conversation. Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.

4. Comparison of user features of messaging platforms - Wikipedia

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   Instant messaging has since seen a revival in popularity in the form of "messaging apps" (usually on mobile devices) which by 2014 had more users than social networks. As of 2010, social networking providers often offer IM abilities. Facebook Chat is a form of instant messaging, and Twitter can be thought of as a Web 2.0 instant messaging system.

5. Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients

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   A multi-device, device-agnostic model is designed for accessibility on multiple devices, regardless of desktop or mobile. Examples of such messaging services include: Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts (subsequently Google Chat), Telegram, ICQ, Element, Slack, Discord, etc. Users have more options as usernames or email addresses can be ...

6. Comparison of instant messaging protocols - Wikipedia

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   YMSG ( Yahoo! Messenger ) ^ a b One-to-many / many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients.

7. Trillian (software) - Wikipedia

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   Trillian is a proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application created by Cerulean Studios. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and the Web. It can connect to multiple IM services, such as AIM, Bonjour, Facebook Messenger, Google Talk (Hangouts), IRC, XMPP (Jabber), VZ, and Yahoo!

8. BBM (software) - Wikipedia

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   BBM was the original "mobile-first" messaging service, and was popular for a while before it started to lose out to rivals. It remained particularly popular in Indonesia , the only country where BBM was the most popular instant messenger in 2016 – installed on 87.5% of Android devices.

9. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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   Facebook launches in select countries Instant Games on Messenger and Facebook News Feed, which allows users to play games without installing new apps. The games are provided via HTML5 . At launch, Instant Games does not allow game developers to place ads or in-game payments in games, but Facebook commits to allowing eventual monetization.