Spotify's on Messenger.
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Spotify's on Messenger.
Это одно из самых неудачных устройств Apple.
Или лучше рассматривать iPhone 5s/6 и выше?
Тестируем ключевые сценарии использования.
Тестируем ключевые сценарии использования.
Социальная сеть Facebook добавила в свое приложение Messenger две новые функции. Первая предоставляет участникам беседы возможность устроить опрос, а вторая связана с технологией Chat Assist — она научилась определять, когда пользователь хочет отправить деньги.
В приложении Facebook Messenger появилась функция «мгновенные видеосообщения». Она позволяет пользователям запускать прямые трансляции видео непосредственно в чатах. Нововведение доступно в свежей версии Facebook Messenger для iOS.
The concept is similar to a feature found in Snapchat, which allows you to augment your chat with some face-to-face conversation.
В приложении Facebook Messenger для iOS появилась расширенная поддержка функции 3D Touch в iPhone 6S и 6S Plus, которая стала доступна пользователям мессенджера в базовом виде в декабре 2015 года.
D Touch теперь дает доступ к предварительному просмотру ссылок, контактов, карт и пр. Facebook выпустила обновление для своего мессенджера, добавив в iOS-версию поддержку 3D Touch. Пользователи iPhone 6 и iPhone 6s могут использовать нажатия разной силы для навигации в клиенте. Теперь при помощи 3D Touch пользователи последних моделей iPhone могут просмотреть превью ссылок, отправленных в сообщении. Разработчики также сообщили, что новая функция Peek and Pop позволит просматривать превью контактов...
Facebook said it would take awhile to integrate Apple's 3D Touch features on the iPhone 6S into its apps, and it certainly has. You've been able to peek and pop within the main Facebook app for some time, but only today â two months before the next iPhone â is the same functionality coming to Facebook Messenger....
Мессенджер крупнейшей соцсети теперь имеет обновленный интерфейс. Самые активные диалоги отображаются вверху. Пользователи, с которыми переписка наиболее активна, отображаются под ними. Контакты сортируются по именам, и к ним добавляются изображения.
Facebook began rolling out a new homescreen interface for its Messenger iOS app on Thursday, hot on the heels of Apple announcing iOS 10 Messages upgrades intended to compete.
Компания Facebook объявил вчера о добавлении более 1500 новых смайликов эмодзи в бесплатное мобильное приложение Messenger, в результате чего сообщения станут веселее и нагляднее.
В Facebook Messenger вскоре появится функция исчезающих сообщений, сообщили в официальном блоге разработчики, которые уже проводят тестирование новой фичи.
В приложении Facebook Messenger появилась функция групповых голосовых вызовов. Как написал в своем блоге глава разработчиков приложения Дэвид Маркус, новшество станет доступно в последней версии приложения в течение нескольких часов.
Facebook добавил в свой мессенджер новую функцию — конференц-связь между участниками групповых чатов. Facebook добавил в свой мессенджер новую функцию — конференц-связь между участниками групповых чатов. Нововведение появилось в Facebook Messenger на Android и iOS по всему миру. Для совершения группового вызова пользователю нужно зайти в чат и указать тех людей, с кем он хочет поговорить. Если между участниками чата происходит звуковая беседа, в правом верхнем углу приложения будет показан значок...
Разработчики Facebook добавили в мессенджер соцсети новую функцию, с помощью которой делиться фотографиями, видео, документами и любыми другими файлами с собеседниками можно через Dropbox. Доступ включается в меню расширений в обновлении за номером 66.0.
Facebook взяла себе за привычку периодически интегрировать в свои приложения скрытые функции, которые потом обнаруживаются пользователями.
Good news for people with boring friends â Facebook has once again hidden a minigame inside its Messenger app, this time to celebrate college basketball's March Madness tournament. To play, make sure you have the latest version of Facebook Messenger, then simply send a friend the basketball emoji. Once sent, press the ball, and be transported away from your conversation to a wonderful world where there's no baby photos, relationship drama, or Candy Crush invites â just a white screen, a basketball,...
The real world finally caught up with Bjork's virtual reality style music, and now you can get it via an iOS app.
LG is hoping its webOS 3.0 platform can compete with the new world of set-top boxes.
Долгожданная функциональность появилась в последнем обновлении популярного мессенджера.
During Apple’s keynote in September, they announced that Facebook Messenger would be coming to the Apple Watch, as long as you’ve updated to watchOS 2. Well, it’s here. You can now share things like voice clips, likes and stickers from your Apple Watch. From my experience, little interactions like this are what works best on the Watch. I’ve found that as soon as I have…
Just as promised at Apple's September event, Facebook Messenger has today been updated to work with Apple Watch. On your wrist, Facebook Messenger will let you send voice clips, likes, stickers, "and more" according to the app listing. That's about all you'd want to do with Facebook Messenger in this context, so it's good to see Facebook focusing on quick interactions. I'll be honest; despite this being a native watchOS 2 app, Facebook Messenger for Apple Watch felt a bit slow throughout on first load,...
According to fresh statistics from analytics firm App Annie published on Wednesday, social media giant Facebook is responsible for four of the top ten most downloaded iOS apps of all time, with Google and Apple titles in tow.
Приоткрою тайну о том, как выглядит домашний экран моего iPhone 6 Plus и какими приложениями я пользуюсь чаще всего. На прошлой неделе Яна Пухальская рассказала о своих любимых приложениях и играх для смартфонов, без которых ее устройства потеряли бы заметную долю привлекательности. Я решил поддержать Яну в этом начинании, но пойти немного дальше: показать все, что установлено на моем смартфоне и рассказать, без каких приложений он превратился бы в бесполезный кусок алюминия с высокотехнологичной...
Крупнейшая социальная сеть поделилась с пользователями крайне приятной новостью. Вам больше не потребуется аккаунт Facebook для обмена мгновенными сообщениями с вашими контактами через сервис Facebook Messenger. С помощью этого новшества Facebook намерена привлечь к пользованию мессенджером еще больше...
Родилась еще одна полноценная альтернатива WhatsApp, Viber и Telegram.
Facebook is removing the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location will no longer be a “second class citizen”, Messenger Head Of Product Stan Chudnovsky tells me. Instead, Messenger has big plans for GPS features, saying “What we’re launching is the foundation…
Компания Facebook подтвердила сегодня, что бесплатная видеосвязь в мобильном приложении Messenger стала доступна для пользователей по всему миру. Напомним, что на некоторых локальных рынках функция стала доступна 27 апреля 2015 года.
Music service Spotify on Wednesday announced a slate of major changes -- including the addition of videos, podcasts, and mood-based playlists -- while Facebook officially expanded Messenger video calls worldwide.
Через неделю после запуска функции голосовых вызовов в приложении Whatsapp на iOS, социальная сеть Facebook ввела возможность видеозвонков в своем официальном мессенджере, сообщает iDownloadBlog.
В приложении Facebook Messenger на Android и iOS появилась возможность общаться по голосовой связи. В приложении Facebook Messenger на Android и iOS появилась возможность общаться по голосовой связи. Изначально она запущена в 18 странах, среди которых нет России. На Windows Phone и в веб-версии мессенджера такой возможности пока не появилось. Перейти в режим общения по видеосвязи можно непосредственно из чата — нажатием на иконку видеокамеры (прямо как в FaceTime). Видеосвязь работает даже в...
Facebook is rolling out video calling to Messenger today, letting users chat face to face with their friends by tapping a single button inside the app. The free feature, which works over both LTE and Wi-Fi, competes with similar products including Microsoft's Skype, Google Hangouts, and Apple's FaceTime. It's meant for the average user, but should also prove useful to Facebook as it continues developing its Facebook for Work service....
Facebook is building its own kind of app store around Messenger, or so was the pitch at the social network’s F8 conference last week. But now that the new platform, which manifests itself as a list of approved iOS apps…
Компания Apple опубликовала список самых скачиваемых приложений 2014 года для iPhone и iPad....
Apple on Tuesday released its annual "Best of 2014" list for the App Store's most-downloaded and highest-grossing titles, revealing so-called "freemium" games as the year's biggest money-makers.
A trio of popular apps -- Amazon Instant Video, Lyft and Seamless -- all gained native-resolution support for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on Thursday, joining a number of others also updated this week. In addition, JetBlue airlines added Touch ID logins for TrueBlue members, while SwiftKey is providing users with a free, festive holiday keyboard theme.
Число пользователей Facebook Messenger выросла до полмиллиарда человек после того, как Facebook полностью удалила возможность обмена личными сообщениями из своих основных мобильных приложений для iOS и Android, сообщается в блоге Facebook.
Cтудент Стэнфордского университета Эндрю Од с помощью программы Cycrypt обнаружил в приложении Facebook Messenger скрытую функцию перевода платежей между пользователями, сообщает TechCrunch. Опция позволяет отсылать друг другу деньги по подобию отправки фотографии.
Издание Mashable сообщило, что пользователи, недовольные переводом функции личных сообщений в приложениях Facebook для iOS и Android в отдельное приложение Facebook Messenger, нашли оригинальный способ выразить свой протест.
Facebook on Monday announced it will be drawing down support for messages sent through its flagship mobile app, meaning users around the world will be forced to download the standalone Messenger app if they want to take their chats on the road.
Сегодня заканчивается первая жаркая июльская неделя и самое время подвести ее итоги. В этой рубрике для удобства читателей мы будем делать простую подборку из тех лучших и бесплатных приложений, о которых писали на протяжении всей недели. Те, кто пропустил наши подробные обзоры, могут без труда найти их на нашем сайте. Сегодня в коллекцию недели попадают мессенджер от Facebook, бесплатная в течение месяца музыка из приложения Zvook, новое приложение для заказа такси и новый сервис перевода денег от...
Один из самых популярных в мире мессенджеров от Facebook получил накануне поддержку iPad — приложение стало универсальным. Теперь пользователям приложения больше не придется иметь дело с «вытянутой» айфоновской версией, пользовательский интерфейс оптимизирован для больших экранов iPad.
Social networking behemoth Facebook on Thursday released a new version of its Facebook Messenger application for iOS that brings with it a new user interface optimized specifically for the larger screens found on Apple's iPads.
We've been waiting long enough.
Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app. Messenger for iPad features a multi-window interface showing a list of threads and your current conversation at the same time. Messenger had over 200 million users as of April…
Facebook Messenger is now fit for your iPad. An update rolling out to the App Store today adds a much-requested iPad interface to the popular messaging app, which was redesigned last fall but didn't get a big-screen treatment. The new Messenger app is exactly what you'd expect, but super-sized. You can call, text, send stickers, videos, and start group chats. Facebook wouldn't say if or when a version of the app built for Android tablets would become available.
Сегодня состоялся релиз долгожданного для многих обновления приложения Facebook Messenger, которое теперь поддерживает и iPad. Обновленная версия также обзавелась полностью переделанным интерфейсом под iPad, что существенно упрощает процесс навигации по мессенджеру.
Facebook might be preparing its own Snapchat competitor dubbed Slingshot, but thatâs not stopping the social networking giant from adding some similar features to its popular Messenger app. A new update this week brings instant video sending to Facebook Messenger, an option to shoot and send 15-second video messages. Facebook Messenger has long supported photo sharing and a Skype-powered video calling service on the web, but this is the first time its more than one billion users can start sending...
Amid the constantly evolving landscape that is mobile messaging, Facebook on Thursday added two new features -- video messaging and bigger "thumbs ups" -- to its Messenger iOS app to help it stand apart from the crowd.
Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar to Snapchat. The feature comes to iOS today and is rolling out to Android. Messenger added pre-recorded video sharing and a split-screen selfie camera in April, but now you can tap and hold the camera button to fire…
People love the intimacy of communicating through photos and videos. Snapchat proved that. Now Facebook wants more of these visual conversations happening in Messenger so it’s added video sharing plus faster photo uploads and camera access in an update for iOS today that’s rolling out to Android this week. The new message composer puts the camera, photo reel, stickers, and audio…
Facebook on Wednesday started sending out notifications to users in Europe regarding the imminent removal of Messenger from the service's flagship iOS and Android apps, a move that will ultimately force users who chat to download the standalone version.
Официальный мессенджер социальной сети Facebook получил обновления на всех трех крупных мобильных платформах.
Сегодня разработчики из Facebook выпустили обновление приложения Messenger, которое добавляет одну из самых долгожданных функций — бесплатные звонки своим друзьям. Теперь среди мессенджеров с функцией голосовых вызовов доступно и решение от Facebook, позволяющее звонить как с использованием Wi-Fi, так и через мобильный интернет.
Facebook said there were just big fixes in its 7.0 iOS update it released yesterday, but actually there's a big new feature it's testing called Highlights. Inside the People tab you'll see Highlights including friends' Life Events and people you've interacted with recently. If you're bored of News Feed and want to know what do next, Highlights could lead the way. Or you might just never use it.
Image-based messaging is in vogue right now. Snapchat just raised a further $50 million to scale its rapidly-growing business, Twitter added support for photos to Direct Messages — the first update to its private messaging service for god-knows-how-long — and Facebook-owned Instagram unveiled Direct, a photo-centric private messaging feature, last week....
Заканчивающаяся сегодня неделя, принесла много новостей, касающихся компании Facebook. Первая из них — неудача, связанная с покупкой мобильного мессенджера Spanchat, за который Facebook предлагал $3,0 млрд., но Spanchat ответил отказом. Понятно, что покупка очень популярного в США мессенджера, предполагала его объединение с собственным мобильным мессенджером компании - Facebook Messenger.
The Facebook Messenger app update the company announced in late October is now available to all iOS and Android mobile users. The update was originally rolled out to a small group of Android users only. See also: Inside Facebook's Mobile Strategy The most notable update to the app allows users to message anyone in their contacts who has the Messenger app, not just those they are Facebook friends with.
Last month Facebook began testing a new version of its standalone Messenger app for Android that integrated phone number-based messaging and notifications for active Messenger users, and today the update rolled out “more broadly” to Android and iOS users....
Facebook is continuing its assault on SMS and quest to become the only messaging app you use today by expanding its "contact via phone number" feature to Messenger for iOS. The option launched on Android to a select set of testers at the end of October, and is being pushed to all Androiders as well as all iOS users. The update is rolling out now and also brings a cleaner layout, and faster…
Facebook on Wednesday rolled out an update to its iOS messaging platform and app with a new design in line with Apple's iOS 7, as well as a new feature that offers users the ability to locate people by their phone number.
We’ve known for sometime that SMS is becoming passe for many smartphone owners worldwide....
As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.
Mobile messengers are all the rage now. That and stickers. But most of us still spend plenty of time at our computers, so being able to message across PC and mobile platforms is a feature that has been overlooked all too often by service providers....
Приложение «Чат Facebook» занимает в линейке «родных» приложений крупнейшей социальной сети почетное место. Впервые выпущенный в 2011 году, сервис обмена мгновенными сообщениями понравился пользователям и уже через год заслужил значительное обновление.
Snapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook which prove the visual communication is on the rise, so it’s just began allowing Messenger for iOS users send Instagrams and photos from other non-camera roll albums. It shows that while Poke failed, Facebook is serious about getting in on the visual communication trend.
Apple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.
Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.
MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-ceo of Mozilla who is now a partner at Greylock, will be joining the board of LittleInc Labs, makers of MessageMe.
In an update to its standalone messaging app on Monday, Facebook added so-called "stickers" from the company's flagship iOS app and reinstated swipe gestures to delete conversations from the inbox.
Facebook Messenger users on iOS in the U.K. and other parts of Europe will get a software update on Monday enabling Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) calling within the app. Meanwhile, note syncing service Evernote has added a new search feature for subscribers to its premium service.
After launching free calling in North America earlier this year, Facebook is expanding its VOIP service to the UK. To make or receive calls, you need to have the Facebook Messenger application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch installed. You can call any of your contacts by selecting the "i" button in conversation view and pressing "Free Call." Messenger supports backgrounding and push notifications, and you'll also be able to leave voice messages when your friends are offline....
Social networking monolith Facebook on Monday announced that it has partnered with multiple cellular providers worldwide to let Messenger app users send messages at discounted or free data rates.
In an update to Facebook's flagship iOS app rolled out on Friday, the social networking monolith ported over free VoIP calling first seen in the Facebook Messenger app, though initial availability limited to the U.S. and Canada.
Facebook today updated its iOS app to include free user-to-user calling. The feature launched one month ago inside Facebook's standalone Messenger app, but has now been graduated to the company's primary app, which has a much larger install base. This means that the tens of millions of people who have Facebook installed on their iPhones can now make and receive calls over Wi-Fi or a cellular data connection. To make a call to another Facebook user, all you need to do is open a chat with that person,...
Facebook Messenger began as a simple way to send messages to Facebook friends, but quickly evolved into a fully fledged texting replacement. Today, you can send pictures, your location, voice messages, and even make calls through the app — all without using any of your monthly minutes or texts. Facebook Messages sync instantly to the social network’s website, which means it’s easy to carry on conversations on your computer, then walk away and take your conversation to go. You might not trust Facebook,...
In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app. Facebook has confirmed to The Verge that the feature began rolling out to US users today, and requires no update through the App Store. To make a call to another Messenger for iPhone user, all you need to do is open a conversation with that person,...
One of features promised with the Facebook Messenger for iPhone update a few weeks ago was Voice-Over IP calling (Download it here). Facebook promised that in the coming weeks you'd be able to call your friends over a cellular or Wi-Fi data connection instead of using up your plan minutes. The feature is finally rolling out now....
Facebook on Wednesday began allowing U.S. users of its Messenger app to place and receive voice over IP calls, expanding the feature to a much wider audience following a two-week trial in Canada.
Facebook is testing out Wi-Fi based calling in Canada with its latest update to its Messenger app. The calling is only avoidable for the iOS app, but both IOS and Android users still get the benefit of being able to record voice messages.
The Facebook Messenger application is getting an update for Android and iOS so that users can now send voice messages up to one-minute long to their friends. Just a few weeks after Facebook went after Snapchat with a clone app, it's modified Messenger to be a clone for Apple's iMessage....
Facebook is testing out Wi-Fi based calling in Canada with its latest update to its Messenger app. The calling is only avoidable for the iOS app, but both IOS and Android users still get the benefit of being able to record voice messages.
Bubbles. That's the biggest change you'll probably notice in Facebook's upgraded Messenger. Gone is the flush-left alignment of the previous version of the app and the...
Facebook's been on a bit of a roll with iOS development lately. Just over a month ago, the company released a major update to its flagship app that offered tangible boosts in performance and responsiveness. Yet Facebook has also steadily worked to improve its standalone projects like Messenger. The latest version of the messaging app, introduced yesterday, brings full support for iOS 6 and Apple's iPhone 5. It also features the same interface changes that recently arrived on the Android release....
Facebook just launched a new version of its Messenger app for iOS. Messenger, the company’s stand-alone chat app, got a bit of a user interface refresh with this update, as well as a speed boost and official support for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5′s larger display. Today’s update comes just a bit more than a week after Facebook also launched an update to its Messenger app for Android and, for the most part, this update brings the iOS app’s design on par with the Android app.
A lot of news coming out of Facebook today, it seems. This afternoon, the social network is also announcing a series of updates for Android users, which include improvements to both the Facebook for Android and Facebook Messenger apps. The news comes about a month after major improvements to the iOS version, which doubled the app’s overall speed in a number of key areas....
Just over a day after updating its official iOS client with better speed and performance, Facebook has also updated Facebook Messenger with a number of improvements....
Facebook is in the process of rolling out Messenger 1.9 for iPhone and Android, which adds full emoji support, one-tap access to a friend's Timeline, an updated "new message" sound, and most importantly, a new indicator under a friend's name which shows when they were last available inside Messenger. The "last active" indicator reminds us of the Facebook and Myspace of yore which let you see when a friend last logged in, but this is more specific since it only applies to Facebook's mobile apps. This...
If you’re a fan of chatting with your Facebook friends via the iOS or Android versions of its Messenger app, today you’ll get some good news. There’s now an easier…
Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android just hit version 1.8, bringing a few slick new features like fast conversation switching, swipe-to-delete for specific messages, and a built-in buddy list for who's "online" when you start a new conversation. The updates should roll out over the next hour or so, Facebook told us. The company also added larger photos to the app, as it has across all of its web and mobile products recently. Perhaps the most important new feature here is local notifications for chat...
Facebook has updated its Facebook Messenger app in the App Store with several new features. You can now see when someone is replying to a message with a live typing indicator, much like iMessage in iOS. Read receipts will also reveal when a message has been read and by whom in a group message. Location information has also been added for showing where someone was when they sent a message from their Apple or Android smartphone.
Facebook has released an updated version of its Facebook Messenger app for both iOS and Android, and while it may not add video chat, it does include several features that make Messenger a more serious competitor against the likes of BlackBerry Messenger and iMessage. Read receipts are the most noticeable addition to version 1.7, with the word "seen" appearing beneath a message when its recipient has taken a look. The functionality even works when sending group messages, ticking off the name of each...
Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you’re having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone’s read your message, and easier ways to tell if someone’s typing and where they’re messaging from. Facebook Messenger “read receipts” are even easier to understand than those long-found on BlackBerry Messenger, and they work for group messaging too. The apps now display “Seen by Peter, Josh, Justin” right under a sent m...
At The Next Web, we get asked one question a lot. “Which apps are must-have’s for my iPhone?”. It’s a common question, especially with a lot of new Sprint and…
I’m sure you’ve already heard a lot about Facebook’s latest iPhone application, Facebook Messenger. However, unless you live in the U.S. or Canada, you’ve been unable to download it… until now! Facebook Messenger has gone global, and is now available to download from App Stores worldwide.
Back in August we reported on Facebook’s new standalone messenger app for iOS and Android, though the iOS version was available in the US and Canada only. But from today,…
Facebook’s mobile messaging client, Facebook Messenger, has received its second update since its original release in the App Store at the beginning of the month. Facebook Messenger 1.0.2 fixes numerous bugs and adds links to phone numbers and addresses. Unfortunately, folks outside of the US still don’t have access to the app.
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So far it seems Facebook's Messenger app is a hit. After launching just Tuesday afternoon, it's already the number-one free app in the iTunes App Store. The iOS app has...
Someone must use Facebook’s chat system, because the social networking giant just released Facebook Messenger, a dedicated iOS app that allows you to send and receive messages or chat with friends on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It even comes with push notifications so you won’t miss any messages. More interestingly, though, Facebook’s Messenger app contains files that hint at future video calling functionality to come.
As you may have heard, Facebook just released a standalone Messenger app. It's their effort to invade your phone with a messaging platform that everyone has access to (because 'everyone' has a Facebook). And even if you don't use Facebook, you can use it to SMS! Well, theoretically it can become your main messaging app. Think of it as a cross platform messaging service that enables you to easily talk to people on any platform—Android, iPhone, Facebook, SMS and everything in between. It's not...
AIM's downfall owes largely to the ubiquity of Facebook chat. And now, the company's going after the mobile crown—texting. Facebook Messenger will do text conversations, privately share your location, and beam around photos. To all of your friends. The dedicated Messenger app will be separate from the main Facebook app for iOS and Android, offering a one-click jump into group or individual messaging. If your pal's on Facebook (which they almost certainly are), they'll get your message in their FB...
Having trouble finding Facebook Messenger? See the updates at the foot of this post. If you’ve used Facebook’s apps for iOS or Android then you’ve already experienced the frustration with…
There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...