Facebook is testing the integration of SMS support back to Messenger.
Facebook now tests the integration of SMS support back into Messenger. If one uses Messenger before 2013, he/she might recall that the American social media service provider initially used to include the integration of SMS in Messenger. Nevertheless, during November 2013, it got rid of the feature claiming that not many people use the feature.
Earlier, the SMS feature used to let users text to friends that were not using Facebook Messenger. Currently, the test of the feature is open to only a handful of Android users in the North American region. To see and check the existence of the feature on Android device, user should simply find the “Change SMS App” option inside the Messenger setting.
Apart from the short messaging service test, the company launched a new feature to facilitate Android users by providing a single device with multiple account support. Instead of compelling multiple users to login and out each time, Messenger launched a switch over between account profiles on a device.
This is proved useful when only one device is shared among friends, family, and business – where a company-owned device is passed amongst workers. This feature is now offered to users of Android system across the world and is capable of being activated by adding people in account settings.
Venture Beat reported that the social network acknowledged of developing a ‘short messaging service’ integration feature. Messenger might also incorporate an Instagram-styled multiple accounts sign-in feature, which would allow users to toggle between several accounts through their settings.
Instagram launched the feature that was mainly aimed at its more socially and prolific users like brands and celebs. The addition of potential multiple accounts to Messenger might also play a role in increasing the revenue of the organization by enticing more advertising from top brands.
Reports also hinted that Messenger might shift to a blue bar for adding a little color to its currently offered white template and firmly associate it with the distinctive “big blue” of its huge giant.
The possibility to offer extra features alongside the service is raising the question that whether the incorporation of similar features might be done to WhatsApp as well. The members of technology community argued over the possibility of getting WhatsApp incorporated with multiple accounts support.
BBC News reported that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckberg responded to the pro colonialism tweet of the organization's early investor, Marc Andreessen, by writing, "I found the comments deeply upsetting. They do not represent the way Facebook or I think at all." Andreessen has removed the tweet.
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