Facebook Messenger is arguably the biggest personal app messages: Today announced the milestone of one billion monthly active users. That means 200 million users have been added since January.
Meanwhile WhatsApp has 1 billion monthly active users as of February. This means that more than 1 in 7 inhabitants on the planet use one chat application of Facebook.
To celebrate the event Facebook added one Easter egg in the Facebook Messenger app: Send a balloon emoji to someone and see what happens.
The company also provided some statistics:
The most popular sticker pack was Angry Birds
Application users send 22 millions of GIFs each day, or 254 GIFs per second
Application users have played 1200000000 games in basketball
250 million football games
300 sent millions of flowers to Mother's Day
and 360 million on Valentine's Day
