Facebook Messenger is arguably the biggest personal messaging app: Today it announced the milestone of one billion monthly active users. This means that 200 million have been added users since January.
Meanwhile WhatsApp has as of February 1 billion monthly active users. This means that more than 1 in 7 people on the planet use some Facebook chat application.
To celebrate the fact Facebook added a Easter egg to the Facebook Messenger application: Send an emoji balloon to someone to see what happens.
Η 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
App users have played 1200000000 games on basket ball
250 million football games
300 sent millions of flowers to Mother's Day
and 360 million on Valentine's Day
