Emoji use between people as a foundation for bot input/output design Emojis, GIFs and stickers are commonly used in person to person communication, though they have slightly different uses and meanings. Here’s what we know about the use of these forms of communication between people: Of the three types, emojis are more serious/formal in the information they convey, followed by stickers and GIFs. When compared to emojis, people typically send stickers and GIFs to close friends and family members GIFs are considered “funny” and “expressive.” Compared to emojis and stickers, GIFs ..read more

Emoji use between people as a foundation for bot input/output design Emojis, GIFs and stickers are commonly used in person to person communication, though they have slightly different uses and meanings. Here’s what we know about the use of these forms of communication between people: Of the three types, emojis are more serious/formal in the information they convey, followed by stickers and GIFs. When compared to emojis, people typically send stickers and GIFs to close friends and family members GIFs are considered “funny” and “expressive.” Compared to emojis and stickers, GIFs ..read more

By Shankar Venkataraman, Messenger for Business Product Marketing Manager The latest release of the Messenger Platform is here! This release includes Private Replies, User Level Persistent Menus and more. Here’s a quick summary of all that’s new: Private Replies We’ve made improvements to Private Replies. Private Replies used to only allow plain text to be sent. With this update, businesses can send images, templates and quick replies as part of messages sent in response to a post or comment on their Page. Private RepliesDynamic Persistent Menu and Composer We’re making it easier than ever for ..read more

The Messenger team hosted breakout sessions at F8 yesterday. Here are highlights from the sessions, and links to watch the recordings.Lighter, Faster, Simpler MessengerIn this session, Software Engineers Joshua Everson and Jeremy Fein shared how they are rebuilding the infrastructure of Messenger from the ground up to deliver a Lighter, Faster, Simpler Messenger. Highlights Included:Shared the Engineering challenges around binary size & complexity.They revealed how we deal with binary size via changes to UI Logic, Business Logic, and Core Logic & how we deal with complexity using the ..read more

Messenger at F8 2019 | Over 20B messages exchanged between people and businesses per monthWe are thrilled by the tremendous growth of people-to-business messaging on Messenger. Currently, there are over 40 million active businesses messaging people across the globe. Our developer community has grown to over 300,000 members, and people and businesses are exchanging over 20 billion messages each month.Faster, lighter MessengerWe just announced the arrival of the lighter, faster version of Messenger. With this next iteration of Messenger, our goal is to keep the app size under 30 MB which will pr ..read more