Monday, February 15, 2010

Facebook hits 100 million mobile users - puts chat on all IM clients

Social-networking player Facebook is now being used by more than 100 million mobile phone users around the world. The company today unveiled a new feature that allows people to use Facebook chat within various instant messaging (IM) clients using the Jabber protocol.

Facebook has reached the 100-million mobile device milestone just six months after it revealed that 65 million people were using it on their mobile devices.

Chamath Palihapitiya, VP in charge of user growth, said that the usage is occurring on almost every mobile carrier in the world. Read More

Courtesy: Silicon Republic

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