How Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp coexist under Facebook<article>
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Facebook’s $22 billion acquisition of popular messaging app WhatsApp last year
raised some eyebrows. Facebook already has a popular messaging app, the in-house Facebook Messenger, not to mention a popular photo-sharing app, Instagram. Why did it need to bring yet another app into the fold? Wouldn’t the three apps end up cannibalizing each other?</p><p>
But as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram continue to grow, with monthly active user numbers swelling to 700 million, 600 million, and 300 million respectively, Facebook has proved that naysayers know nothing about what people want from the apps they use every day. Product chiefs of WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram took the stage at Facebook’s annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco on Thursday to dispel any myths about rivalry between the three apps—and hinted deeper cooperation (or integration) could one day come.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2902226/how-facebook-messenger-instagram-and-whatsapp-coexist-under-facebook.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp coexist under Facebook
