{"id":31266,"date":"2011-08-10T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31266"},"modified":"2011-08-10T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:51:08","slug":"facebook-chat-app-for-android-iphone-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/31266-facebook-chat-app-for-android-iphone-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook chat app for Android, iPhone launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> have released their new app for Android and iOS called \u201cMessenger\u201d. Users will be able to chat with contacts, create group chats, and share their locations and photos.<\/p>\n<p>The application won\u2019t integrate with Facebook chat yet, and is missing a message delivery notification present in all of the competing apps.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2011, Facebook acquired a messaging platform called Beluga, which Facebook Messenger appears to be built on.<\/p>\n<p>Messenger is available for free download on both the Android Marketplace and the iOS App store.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/08\/09\/facebook-launches-messenger-chat-app-for-android-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has announced a new app for Android called Messenger, taking on BBM and Whatsapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101,3562,161,3560,2594],"class_list":["post-31266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bbm","tag-beluga","tag-facebook","tag-messenger","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31274,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions\/31274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}