Updated: Facebook Officially Releases “Messenger for Windows” Desktop Client To Public – Download Now!
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Did you know that Facebook’s active users are more than eight billion because of its chat feature, when compared to Google+. Since Google plus is a newer one that can even take off Facebook chat client in the future as reports surfaced earlier.
While after getting several updates to the Facebook’s social network’s services, its’ been a common knowledge for a while now that Facebook would be going all desktop clients, bringing parts of the platform away from just a browser, and today, users can also get a the very first fruit to taste of Facebook’s native chat app.
Following on from the likes of Google Talk and MSN Messenger, the Facebook chat app allows users to communicate real-time, check messages, view those all important notifications, and of course the very exciting friend requests.
It hasn’t rolled out officially by Facebook, but is now passed around as a private installation file as public release, which not supposed to be. Said file has now been leaked though to mere mortals though, as an early new year present from everyone’s favorite social game. Great! isn’t it…
According to some popular sources, social news comes out as. The test group for “Facebook Messenger for Windows” have got a whole lot bigger. The client includes notifications and the Ticker which link back to Facebook.com, and therefore could drive engagement with the website. Messenger could also pull market share away from other desktop chat clients like AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
The best first impressions, the app looks, feels and runs pretty well. Rather than being overloaded with bunch of features, it simply cuts the wanted bits from the official site, and then pastes them straight into the application. Desktop notifications do make social networking a lot more integrated, however, should proceed with extreme caution. As the app kindly points out upon first launch, right click the icon, and click quit if you feel like Facebook’s going to stop you from working/researching!
From TechCrunch:
The client will help Facebook in two core ways:
Persistent access to Chat will increase engagement of the primary user, and also draw their friends to spend more time on Facebook
Persistent access to notifications, messages, and friend requests that launch Facebook.com may lead to more return visits than users haphazardly stopping by the website to check for these alerts
Facebook could potentially kill the down link to prevent the app from reaching more users before its official launch. So, if you want it, download it now. Even then, Facebook could release an update to the app and cease support for this leaked version.
You can join the party via the embedded official link below. It’s Windows-only, so Mac users will have to wait for the OS X alternative.
[Update 12/29/2011 5:20pm : Facebook has now made the Messenger for Windows download link publicly available officially in its Help Center. Users can also learn details about the client there.
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