Facebook Messenger now has over 1.3 billion monthly active users. The user base has increased from 1.2 billion in April. Messenger surpassed the one billion monthly active users (MAUs) mark in July 2016. Facebook owned WhatsApp also has 1.3 billion MAUs.
Facebook Messenger said in a Facebook post,
We’ve continued working hard to make Messenger the best it can be, introducing new masks, filters and reactions for video chat, more suggestions from M and making our virtual personal assistant available in more places around the world, rolling our more Instant Games more broadly and bringing Messenger Lite to more countries.
Facebook Messenger downloads on Android and iOS worldwide grew 5.66 per cent from 145.3 million in Q1 2016 to 153.5 million in Q1 2017. Earlier in April, Instagram announced that it has more than 700 million monthly active users.