{"id":113891,"date":"2014-11-11T07:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=113891"},"modified":"2014-11-11T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:16:14","slug":"facebook-messenger-hits-half-a-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/113891-facebook-messenger-hits-half-a-billion-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger hits half a billion users"},"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 Facebook news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113653-facebook-adds-donate-to-ebola-button.html\">Facebook adds \u201cdonate to Ebola\u201d button<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/113567-facebook-restricts-content-criticizing-government-and-religion.html\">Facebook restricts content criticizing government and religion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113465-governments-demanding-facebook-user-information.html\">Governments demanding Facebook user information<\/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":340871,"featured_media":100048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,8887,7979],"class_list":["post-113891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}