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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. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook uses its own content delivery network or "edge network" under the domain fbcdn.net for serving static data. Until the mid-2010s, Facebook also relied on Akamai for CDN services. Hack programming language. On March 20, 2014, Facebook announced a new open-source programming language called Hack. Before public release, a large portion of ...

  4. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Specific announcements include making Facebook Messenger more of a platform, a new real-time comments system, embeddable videos, spherical video, Parse for the Internet of Things, updates to ad exchange LiveRail, and analytics for apps. 2015: March 26: Open sourcing: Facebook releases its React native framework for building native apps as open ...

  5. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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    Facebook Messenger by Meta Platforms is the most popular messaging app in North America, Northern Europe, some Central Europe countries, and Oceania. Telegram is the most popular messaging app in several Eastern Europe countries, and the second preferred option after WhatsApp in several countries in Western Europe, Middle East, South Asia ...

  6. Signal (messaging app) - Wikipedia

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    Signal (messaging app) Signal is an encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice, and video calls. [13] [14] The instant messaging function includes sending text, voice notes, images, videos, and other files. [15] Communication may be one-to-one between users or may involve group messaging.

  7. MSN Messenger - Wikipedia

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    MSN Messenger. MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN [2] [3] ), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. [4] It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger.

  8. Timeline of social media - Wikipedia

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    1990s–2000s. Various notable social media platforms such as Myspace and Facebook are developed and released, and blogging begins to gain popularity. Instant messaging platforms such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Windows Live Messenger also become increasingly popular. [3] 2010s.

  9. List of Facebook features - Wikipedia

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    Listen with Friends. Listen with Friends allows Facebook users to listen to music and discuss the tunes using Facebook Chat with friends at the same time. Users can also listen in as a group while one friend acts as a DJ. Up to 50 friends can listen to the same song at the same time, and chat about it.