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How Facebook's Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement

How Facebook's Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement

How Facebook's Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

October 25, 201811m 55s

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Only six social media apps in the world have a billion or more users, and four of them belong to Facebook. Tops is the eponymous flagship app, known as “Big Blue,” followed by three apps all focused on messaging: Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. So when Facebook decided to do a significant redesign of the latter—currently used by 1.

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