Facebook plans to merge its messaging services on Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and Instagram into one single app. What this actually means is that, users of these platforms will be able to chat on these three services simultaneously in one app.
These three will still remain stand-alone apps, but their messaging
service will be linked to each other so messages can flow between the
different platforms.
According to New York Times, Facebook founder - Mark Zuckerberg - is the brain behind all these. It's his personal project. Mark went further to say it was a start of a “long process”.
Once complete, the merger would mean that a Facebook user could
communicate directly with someone who only has a WhatsApp account or
Instagram account. This is currently impossible as the applications have
no common core.
According to source, the work to merge these three messaging services is
already in progress and it's expected to be completed by the end of
2019 or early next year 2020.
For now, the messaging services will continue to operate on their own
respective platforms, but their underlying technical infrastructure will
be unified, said four people involved in the work. That will bring
together three of the world’s largest messaging networks, which between
them have more than 2.6 billion users, allowing people to communicate
across the platforms for the first time.
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January 27, 2019
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