{"id":73014,"date":"2014-11-11T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=73014"},"modified":"2014-11-11T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:05:30","slug":"facebook-messenger-half-a-billion-users-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/73014\/facebook-messenger-half-a-billion-users-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger: half a billion users and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking site Facebook Inc said its messaging service is being used by more than half a billion people, few months after it was separated from the main Facebook app.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said in April users would need to download a separate app for Messenger, which would allow them to send videos, make free calls and chat with groups.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in April that its Messenger service had over 200 million users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook government data requests jump\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/72450\/facebook-government-data-requests-jump\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook government data requests jump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp hotbeds of terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/72384\/facebook-twitter-and-whatsapp-hotbeds-of-terrorism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp hotbeds of terrorism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook South Africa user numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/72266\/facebook-south-africa-user-numbers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook South Africa user numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook planning to spend big in 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/71914\/facebook-planning-to-spend-big-in-2015\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook planning to spend big in 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking site Facebook Inc said its messaging service is being used by more than half a billion people, few months after it was separated from the main Facebook app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,45,9122],"class_list":["post-73014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73018,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions\/73018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}