Facebook Messenger has been downloaded over 500m times on Android devices world wide, according to the Google Play Store.
Despite user backlash over Facebook’s controversial policy to force users to install the separate Messenger app to continuing using Facebook chat on a smartphone or tablet, it joins the list of apps that have been downloaded more than 500m times.
Currently only Google’s own apps such as Gmail and YouTube, Facebook’s primary app and WhatsApp, which the social network bought in February, and Messenger have been downloaded more than 500m times.
No app has yet been downloaded over 1bn times, despite there being over 1 billion monthly Android users globally as of July, according to data from Google.
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