Facebook Messenger: This ingenious Easter Egg is only available today

A really cool Easter Egg is waiting for you in Facebook Messenger today: On the occasion of a billion active Messenger users, Facebook is celebrating with you on your smartphone. We show you how to amaze your friends with the Easter Egg.

Easter Egg in Facebook Messenger: send balloons in chat

1. In Facebook Messenger you can now send a lot of colorful balloons that rise to the sky.
2. All you have to do is send the red balloon in Messenger to a chat partner. You can find it in the seventh section of the symbols, under the light bulb.
3. However, the prerequisite is that your chat partner also opens the message in Messenger. If, on the other hand, he uses the mobile Facebook page in the browser, only you will see the many balloons.

1 billion users: Facebook Messenger makes an impression

• WhatsApp already announced in February 2016 that it had broken the billion-user mark. Now the messenger follows. This year, the app was able to attract around 100 million new users every three months.
• The number of users is also impressive: 22 million GIFs and 380 million stickers are sent out by users every day. In addition, 17 billion photos are sent every month.
• An important reason for the rapid growth: Facebook has banned the chat function from the normal Facebook app. If you want to chat with Facebook friends now, you have to install Messenger. Only a few users know this trick to avoid the app constraint.