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1.2 billion Users of Facebook messenger…

Facebook messanger now counts more than 1.2 billion monthly active users, Facebook announced Tuesday. That’s up from 1 billion users last July.

Facebook attributes much of the recent growth to the expansion of Messenger Lite, the version of the app launched last fall for slower connections and older phones, as well as the rapid expansion of new features.

In the past few weeks alone,…