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121 articles decelerating

Messenger has appeared in 121 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Meta.

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121
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Velocity
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growth rate
Acceleration
-1.500
velocity change
Sources
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publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-10-05
9to5Mac 81 related

Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours

Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down.  Your mileage may vary for now …

2021-10-04
9to5Mac 6 related

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp are suffering an outage

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :

2021-01-28
CNBC 11 related

Zuckerberg says Apple is one of Facebook's “biggest competitors” and uses its dominant position to preference apps like iMessage against WhatsApp and Messenger

and it'll protect users like never before Tweets: Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Zuckerberg took a few minutes on this call to bash Apple's stance on privacy, and say that WhatsApp is “superior” to iMes...

2020-12-10
Mashable 4 related

Users report issues sending messages on Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook's workplace collaboration platform, primarily in Europe

Can't use Messenger right now?  It's not just you.  —  Users reported issues using Facebook and Instagram on Thursday morning, particularly regarding the messaging services of each platform.

2019-07-04
The Verge 45 related

Facebook says it has resolved outages that began at ~8am ET across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that caused issues loading images and more

The issue caused some images and features to break across all of Facebook's apps  —  Facebook had problems loading images, videos …

2019-07-03
The Verge 7 related

Facebook says it is working to fix outages across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that are causing issues loading images and more

Facebook has had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed …

2019-04-15
Bloomberg 26 related

Facebook suffers third major outage in 2019, with all of its services down for ~2 hours on Sunday, after a ~24-hour outage in March, and a smaller crash in Jan.

down (again) Matt Binder / Mashable : Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger all go down in worldwide outage Yoel Minkoff / Seeking Alpha : Another outage for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Ch...

2019-03-07
Stratechery

Mark Zuckerberg's “privacy-focused” announcement is not a dramatic pivot: it is a growth opportunity for Facebook and a challenge for regulators

What was striking about the reaction to Mark Zuckerberg's latest missive about the future of Facebook, A Privacy-Focused Vision … Tweets: @stevesi , @caseynewton , @caseynewton , @nikosfertakis , @mat...

2018-12-31
IEEE Spectrum

How Facebook engineers keep Messenger from crashing on New Year's Eve, when more messages are sent than on any other day, through “graceful degradation”

Messenger's 1.3 billion users send more messages on New Year's Eve than on any other day of the year Tweets: @ieeespectrum and @ieeespectrum Tweets: IEEE Spectrum / @ieeespectrum : When you've built a...

2018-12-30
IEEE Spectrum

How Facebook engineers keep Messenger from crashing on New Year's Eve, when more messages are sent than on any other day, through “graceful degradation”

Messenger's 1.3 billion users send more messages on New Year's Eve than on any other day of the year Tweets: @ieeespectrum Tweets: IEEE Spectrum / @ieeespectrum : New Year's Eve is coming. And for the...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Messenger has appeared in 424 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years and AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years. Frequently covered alongside Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta. Coverage has shifted toward developer, consumer themes and away from research, regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer -20pts; research +20pts; regulation +10pts
2024Q3consumer +20pts; research -20pts; regulation -10pts
2025Q1consumer -33pts

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