Facebook Messenger & Instagram Chat Likely To Be Combined With Introduction Of New Features And Emojis

Facebook Inc. has started to blend the chat function of  Instagram with Messenger services. The changes are coming up in the form of an update in the company’s app on Apple Inc’s devices as well as on Android devices. As soon as it is updated, the Instagram fixes the Messenger functionality along with it and adds more emojis and features like swipe-to-reply and enable to “chat with friends who use Facebook,”

This happens to be the most recent effort from Facebook to bring individual products and apps together. For the past two years, Instagram and WhatsApp got itself re-branded in an effort to amplify user’s awareness about the apps that are owned by Facebook. Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg, is planning to announce plans to combine all the company’s messaging services.

Facebook acquired Instagram, for $715 million in 2012 and now has more than 1 billion users which have helped it to generate more than a quarter in the social-media company’s revenue as compared to last year. The team who will be in charge of direct messaging on Instagram will report to the Facebook Messenger team. The company is in the process to rebrand Instagram as “Instagram from Facebook.”