Messenger is an instant messaging app and service developed by Facebook, now part of Meta Platforms. It grew out of the chat function on Facebook, which became a standalone mobile app for smartphones in 2011 after Facebook acquired the messaging startup Beluga. A few years later Facebook required mobile users to install it in order to send messages from their phones, moving messaging out of the main app. Messenger added voice and video calls, group chats, stickers, payments and chatbots for businesses, and it became one of the world's most widely used messaging platforms. In the 2020s it introduced end-to-end encryption by default and re-merged some features with Facebook.
Before and after
- from 28 November 2010 to 11 April 20112010–2011 Ivorian crisis
- 10 December 2010Discovery of C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
- from 18 December 2010 to 1 December 2012Arab Spring
- 24 December 2010Tunisian revolution
- 2011Release of Messenger
- 2011Construction of Abraj Al Bait
- 2011Founding of Moscow Exchange
- 2011Release of WeChat
- 2011Release of Minecraft
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
The era
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