Categories: Mobile

Facebook Messenger app available in Ireland and the UK

Facebook Messenger, Facebook’s standalone messaging app, is now available to download in Ireland and the UK – a little over one month after it was initially released in the United States.

It would appear, however, that the app isn’t yet available to other countries on mainland Europe, like France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Facebook Messenger is available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, as well as Android version 2.2 and above. The app itself is very simply but looks and functions well. Users can message friends individually or by group, can attach photos and share location information. Users receive push-notifications whenever a new message is available to read, with options to turn alerts off for one hour or overnight.

As with standard Facebook Messages functionality, messages sent using Facebook Messenger are delivered depending on the availability of the recipient – messages are received via Facebook Chat if the user is online, or via Facebook Messages or SMS if the user is offline.

The app only lets you message friends that are on Facebook and, unfortunately, doesn’t synchronise with existing phone contacts to deliver messages via SMS.

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

Recent Posts

The smart kitchen revolution: Why automation may be the next big health breakthrough

In an age of rising diet-related chronic diseases, how we eat matters just as much…

2 hours ago

Prioritizing Morals and Mercy, Not Just Margins: Inside Crescite’s Catholic USD™ Launch 

Money is rarely about a higher purpose, particularly in a market defined by speed and…

6 hours ago

Construction management software firm Billdr relaunches as AI-native operating system, raises $3.2M 

Billdr, a software company building an AI-native operating system for construction, announced today it will…

1 day ago

Humanoid robots for sale in 2 years, AI smarter than all humanity collectively in 5: Musk to WEF

Humanoid robots will go on sale in two years, and in five years AI will…

4 days ago

Larry Fink promotes ‘A Spirit of Dialogue’ in Davos, WEF restricts replies on X

The WEF neither restored trust nor acted in a spirit of dialogue: perspective When Larry…

4 days ago

Satellites That Think for Themselves: How CATALYST Is Bringing Real-Time Image Processing to Orbit

For decades,satellites have had a simple job: take pictures, send them back to Earth, and…

5 days ago