If you can remember, tech giant Facebook’s notify app, you’re a real geek. Unfortunately, Facebook has decided to stop updating its seven-month old app Notify.
The company has took the decision due to the decreasing popularity of the app. Facebook has said that it will its features to various other apps like messenger to send notifications to the user.
Notify was designed to pick content from Facebook’s partners such as Bloomberg Business, CNN and New York Times and send notifications on the mobile’s lock screen of the user. In a statement that was published said that through Notify users can even follow to only a category, say Sports, in a publication instead of following the whole.
According to Facebook, it’s going to nullify the app from the app stores as well. The app has only 63,000 total download, according to a report and the developers were desperately promoting the app and requesting users to like the page of the app, added the report.
The reports said that Facebook is actually working on Messenger’s chatbots to deliver the latest content and updates to the user. Unlike Notify, which was a standalone app, the bot technology does not need a separate app and hence top guns such as CNN and the Wall Street Journal are already using the technology, with more companies to follow. As it does not need an app the features can be integrated to any service and all the Facebook users can use it anytime.
Facebook sent a following notice to subscribers’ phones earlier,
The statement issued by the company,
"Starting on Wednesday, we will begin integrating Notify functionality into other Facebook products, like Messenger, and will be removing Notify from the App Store. Since launching Notify, we've learned a lot about how to make notifications as timely and relevant as possible and we heard from people using the app that Notify helped them stay informed about things they cared about throughout the day.
With more than 900 million people using Messenger each month, we think there is a great opportunity for publishers to reach even more people interested in real-time updates from their favorite sources."
By Prajakt K.
