Facebook chat now open for everyone

April 23rd, 2008

Two and a half weeks after Facebook Chat launched in beta to some US college users, as of early this morning Chat is now available for all Facebook users. Facebook has been slowly rolling out the launch since April 6 - users in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston got access in recent days.

Scaling chat infrastructure is an extremely challenging technical problem. We haven’t received any reports of downtime for the service - a big achievement by the Facebook ops team.

So far, Facebook hasn’t made any announcements on whether Facebook Chat will support Jabber interoperability - though Facebook has suggested it would add Jabber support in the future. Facebook also hasn’t announced any plans to build chat APIs, which would be a major boon to those building chat services on the Facebook Platform.

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5 Responses to “Facebook chat now open for everyone”

Nick Forde Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Its a shame the chat client keeps crashing in Europe
Major Boon Says:
April 27th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Major Boon, at your service
tarikwa abebe-collins Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 4:08 am
now that you have placed the new face book front page. i am having difficulty in opening it. please help me to resove it as i like chatting to friends on face book
Ana Beleska Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
let`s chat
Ana Beleska Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I have problem to open my facebook chat or if i can open, for a few second chat is gone