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WE ARE SOCIAL: THE MESSENGERS ARE COMING

WE ARE SOCIAL IS AN AGENCY THAT CONDUCTS RESEARCHES IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL MEDIA. THE OTHER DAY THEY RELEASED AN INTERESTING REPORT, WHICH DIRECTLY RELATES TO INSTANT MESSENGERS.

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MESSENGERS OF THE FUTURE

App stores are packed with messengers. Each one captures the audience over a certain territory. Looking ahead it is obvious that future messengers will span across all grounds.   They are a real pain in the rear for mobile operators, who are losing billions due to the reduced number of sent text messages. Considering the…

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DASHER GIFENGER

  It is difficult to surprise anyone with a messenger in 2015. Humongous WhatsApp, where the number of users is nearing a billion Viber with stickers and public chats KakaoTalk, Tango, LINE with games Encrypted Telegram. Sometimes it seems that the number of messengers is increasing faster than the number of their users. Everyone is…

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SKYPE SWINDLERS

 20 JANUARY WITNESSED NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS OF FRAUD AIMED AT SKYPE USERS.  According to one of the users, the scammers used an account from the list of contacts to try and persuade the contact to transfer some funds to a third-party account. The amusing thing is that the messages from swindlers were seamlessly wedge into an already…

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INSTEAD OF EMAILS: Facebook at Work

People working in teams have long since developed a tendency of replacing their awkward email clients with faster and more functional services, like Yammer, Slack and their analogues. The other day Facebook (that’s trying to race everyone to the finish line) started testing a special messenger (or, as an option, an expansion of an existing…

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VIOLATION OF FEELINGS OF CHINESE CITIZENS

THE OTHER DAY WECHAT WAS FLOODED WITH COMPLAINTS FROM OUTRAGED CHINESE USERS: The things is that on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day WeChat developers decided to leave an Easter egg for their users – when you type in the phrase “civil rights” an emoji of the US flag would appear. The introduction of topical smiles…

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ZUCKERBERG THE BANKER. FACEBOOK MESSENGER MONEY TRANSFERS.

Facebook will take care of your money Facebook Messenger will become more than just a messenger. Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude will back that up. He has an unusual hobby — with the help of Cycript (iOS app exploration developer tool) he looks at the internal components of various apps. He did the same…

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MESSENGER REALITIES: NOW AND STILL TO COME

ANALYST BENEDICT EVANS HAS RECENTLY SHARED HIS THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR MESSENGERS. After WhatsApp became Facebook’s property Evans expressed his opinion on the fact that the given market doesn’t have a winner yet, however, the smartphone has entirely become a social platform. A remarkable fact is that the biggest messenger out there,…

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“WHY IS SLACK SO POPULAR?”

«I HAVE NO F-KING IDEA WHY SLACK EXPLODED, TO BE HONEST” — SLACK CO-FOUNDER, STEWART BUTTERFIELD, TOLD JOURNALIST AT THE DLD CONFERENCE. A graph demonstrating the growth rate of Slack, a corporate messenger, was released not too long ago, presenting some impressive results, to say the least. We’ll go into that a bit later. Slack was…

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VIBER PUBLIC CHATS — WHO TO FOLLOW.

What is it? Viber’s new and exciting feature released in late November. It’s all about popular public chats, celebrities, paraded brands. For the time being this function is running in test mode only, and it’s impossible to manually create a new chat. Why? Now your favorite media, brands and celebs are even closer. Twitter lets…