Facebook messenger slows down after rolling out of Remove for Everyone feature

An outcry related to the slowing down of Facebook messenger has created headlines. Several users in the United States and Europe on Tuesday (November 20) notified that Facebook messenger wasn't working for them. According to a portal named downdetector.com, thousands of messenger users were not able to send, receive messages, log in and connect to the server.

The slow processing of Facebook messenger was mentioned in over 2,535 reports in the last 10 minutes on downdetector.com and consequently, several reports were floated over Twitter from various parts of the world.

As far as the official cause from Facebook is concerned, so far the company has not revealed behind this technical failure. The outrage was noticed after a day Facebook launched a new update named Remove for Everyone to the messenger that aims to allow more than 1.3 billion users delete sent messages from chat threads, within just 10 minutes of sending.

On the other hand, the company is also testing a feature titled Watch Videos Together on messenger. This new feature is targeted to allow the users simultaneously co-viewing of videos over a group chat on different devices. Although the messenger was down, there is absolutely no issue with Facebook's other big messaging platform WhatsApp.

The reports suggest that while WhatsApp has an average of 1.5 billion users monthly, Facebook messenger gets 1.3 billion users monthly.