Last night Facebook announced “Transportation on Messenger”, which integrates ride-hailing services into its chat app. Unsurprisingly, Uber has become the first partner, allowing users to order a ride entirely within Messenger, and receive receipts, status updates and the like, as part of conversations. The transport platform is still in testing in ten US cities, however other areas and countries are coming soon, as well as a partnership with American Uber-rival, Lyft, in the past year and a half. The partnership should help Uber attract new clients, as Facebook Messenger has more than doubled its userbase in January, since it was broken out from the main Facebook app, and currently boasts over 700 million active users per month.
Last night Facebook announced “Transportation on Messenger”, which integrates ride-hailing services into its chat app. Unsurprisingly, Uber has become the first partner, allowing users to order a ride entirely within Messenger, and receive receipts, status updates and the like, as part of conversations. The transport platform is still in testing in ten US cities, however other areas and countries are coming soon, as well as a partnership with American Uber-rival, Lyft, in January. The partnership should help Uber attract new clients, as Facebook Messenger has more than doubled its userbase in the past year and a half, since it was broken out from the main Facebook app, and currently boasts over 700 million active users per month.