Facebook's standalone Messenger service now has 700 million users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday.
That's up 100 million users from March, when the company said that the service had 600 million monthly users.
Facebook has been ramping up its efforts into building Messenger as a standalone social platform, with its own features and capabilities that are separate from the flagship Facebook social network. In March Facebook allowed third-party software deveopers to create apps to run inside of Messenger.
Messenger is one of several such standalone services in Facebook's arsenal. It also owns the Whatsapp messaging service, which counts 800 million monthly users and the Instagram photo app which has more than 300 million users.
Facebook Messenger boss David Marcus also recently noted that the Messenger app has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on Android devices.
Messenger's increase in monthly users from more than 600 million in March to more than 700 million today is pretty impressive, but these kinds of figures should taken with a grain of salt since they are not entirely transparent. Facebook never specified exactly how many "more than 600 million" users Messenger had back in March. Theoretically, it's possible that Messenger had 690 million users in March and now has 710 million users.
